How to format your references using the Food Quality and Preference citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Quality and Preference. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Onnela, J.-P. J. P. (2014). Physics. Flow of control in networks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6177), 1325–1326.

A journal article with 2 authors

Artal-Sanz, M., & Tavernarakis, N. (2009). Prohibitin couples diapause signalling to mitochondrial metabolism during ageing in C. elegans. Nature, 461(7265), 793–797.

A journal article with 3 authors

Müller, H., Peters, A., & Chu, S. (2010). A precision measurement of the gravitational redshift by the interference of matter waves. Nature, 463(7283), 926–929.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Buzio, R., Repetto, L., Giacopelli, F., Ravazzolo, R., & Valbusa, U. (2014). Symmetric curvature descriptors for label-free analysis of DNA. Scientific Reports, 4, 6459.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Adams, N. (2013). Eclipse of Grace. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rotondi, A. (2012). Probabilità, Statistica e Simulazione: Programmi applicativi scritti con Scilab (P. Pedroni & A. Pievatolo, Eds.; 3a edizione). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bohigas, O., Manubens, M., & Ros, L. (2013). Navigating the Wrench-Feasible C-Space of Cable-Driven Hexapods. In T. Bruckmann & A. Pott (Eds.), Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (pp. 53–68). Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Food Quality and Preference.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 23). A Schoolboy In The UK Pointed Out An Error To NASA On The ISS. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-schoolboy-in-the-uk-pointed-out-an-error-to-nasa-on-the-iss/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (1992). Tax Systems Modernization: Concerns Over Security and Privacy Elements of the Systems Architecture (IMTEC-92-63). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ficchi, G. (2017). A Qualitative Inquiry: Parental Approaches and Expectations, What Role Does Disability Play? [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Michael Kelly With. (1992, July 8). THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate’s Record; Detective for Perot Describes Inquiry Into a Rival Business. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Onnela, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Artal-Sanz & Tavernarakis, 2009; Onnela, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Artal-Sanz & Tavernarakis, 2009)
Three authors: (Müller et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Buzio et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Quality and Preference
Abbreviation	Food Qual. Prefer.
ISSN (print)	0950-3293
Scope	Food Science Nutrition and Dietetics