How to format your references using the Food Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Security. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Mayer-Schönberger, V. (2009). Sociology. Can we reinvent the Internet? Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5939), 396–397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanz, J., & Fayad, Z. A. (2008). Imaging of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Nature, 451(7181), 953–957.

A journal article with 3 authors

Korkhov, V. M., Mireku, S. A., & Locher, K. P. (2012). Structure of AMP-PNP-bound vitamin B12 transporter BtuCD-F. Nature, 490(7420), 367–372.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mirabel, I. F., Dhawan, V., Mignani, R. P., Rodrigues, I., & Guglielmetti, F. (2001). A high-velocity black hole on a Galactic-halo orbit in the solar neighbourhood. Nature, 413(6852), 139–141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Willan, A. R., & Briggs, A. H. (2006). Statistical Analysis of Cost-effectiveness Data. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Yeung, D. S., Liu, Z.-Q., Wang, X.-Z., & Yan, H. (Eds.). (2006). Advances in Machine Learning and Cybernetics: 4th International Conference, ICMLC 2005, Guangzhou, China, August 18-21, 2005, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3930). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Buelga, S., Martínez-Ferrer, B., & Musitu, G. (2016). Family Relationships and Cyberbullying. In R. Navarro, S. Yubero, & E. Larrañaga (Eds.), Cyberbullying Across the Globe: Gender, Family, and Mental Health (pp. 99–114). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Security.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 24). How To Watch The ISS Fly Overhead On Christmas Eve. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/britons-will-be-treated-wonderful-view-iss-tonight/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2004). General Aviation Security: Increased Federal Oversight Is Needed, but Continued Partnership with the Private Sector Is Critical to Long-Term Success (No. GAO-05-144). Washington, DC: 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

Duberstein, J. N. (2010). The shape of the commons: Social networks and the conservation of small-scale fisheries in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Kelly, C. (2014, June 22). Film Delves Into Lives of Strippers in Dallas. New York Times, p. A27B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mayer-Schönberger 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Mayer-Schönberger 2009; Sanz and Fayad 2008).

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

Two authors: (Sanz and Fayad 2008)
Three or more authors: (Mirabel et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Security
Abbreviation	Food Secur.
ISSN (print)	1876-4517
ISSN (online)	1876-4525
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Development