How to format your references using the Foodborne Pathogens and Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 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

Turner JA. Chemistry. A nickel finish protects silicon photoanodes for water splitting. Science 2013; 342:811–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dragoi G, Tonegawa S. Preplay of future place cell sequences by hippocampal cellular assemblies. Nature 2011; 469:397–401.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rakitzis TP, van den Brom AJ, Janssen MHM. Directional dynamics in the photodissociation of oriented molecules. Science 2004; 303:1852–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nakayama H, Shiraki A, Hirayama R, Masuda N, Shimobaba T, Ito T. Three-dimensional volume containing multiple two-dimensional information patterns. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1931.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glasgow LA. Applied Mathematics for Science and Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

Keller C, Wiberg M, Ågerfalk PJ, Eriksson Lundström JSZ (eds.). Nordic Contributions in IS Research: Third Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2012, Sigtuna, Sweden, August 17–20, 2012. Proceedings. vol. 124. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang P, He Y, Huang L. Approaching the Optimal Schedule for Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications: 5th International Conference, WASA 2010, Beijing, China, August 15-17, 2010. Proceedings. Pandurangan G, Anil Kumar VS, Ming G, Liu Y, Li Y (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010, pp. 26–35.

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 Foodborne Pathogens and Disease.

Blog post

Andrew E. New Analysis Reveals No Firm Conclusion On Whether Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Honeybee Populations. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-firm-conclusion-whether-neonicotinoid-pesticides-harm-honeybee-populations/ (accessed October 30, 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. DFAS Telecommunications: DFAS Has the Opportunity To Reduce Its Telecommunication Line Capacity. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Asare KB. Understanding the Transformational Leadership Practices of Colleges of Education Principals. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, 2016.

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 M. And on Kohl’s Agenda (or Was It Menu?). New York Times 1993:14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Turner, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Dragoi and Tonegawa, 2011; Turner, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Dragoi and Tonegawa, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Nakayama et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Foodborne Pathogens and Disease
ISSN (print)	1535-3141
ISSN (online)	1556-7125
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