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 (FPD). 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

Anderson JB. Climate Change. Ice Sheet Stability and Sea-Level Rise. Science 2007;315(5820):1803–1804.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feachem RGA and Medlin CA. Health Is Wealth. Nature 2002;417(6890):695.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boudvillain M, de Lencastre A and Pyle AM. A Tertiary Interaction That Links Active-Site Domains to the 5’ Splice Site of a Group II Intron. Nature 2000;406(6793):315–318.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schmidt AR, Ragazzi E, Coppellotti O, et al. A Microworld in Triassic Amber. Nature 2006;444(7121):835.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartfuß H-J and Geist T. Fusion Plasma Diagnostics with Mm-Waves. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany; 2013.

An edited book

Marchioro C, (ed). Dynamical Systems. C.I.M.E. Summer Schools. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Roederer J and Zhang H. Particle Fluxes, Distribution Functions and Violation of Invariants. In: Dynamics of Magnetically Trapped Particles: Foundations of the Physics of Radiation Belts and Space Plasmas. (Zhang H. ed). Astrophysics and Space Science Library Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2014; pp. 89–122.

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

O`Callaghan J. The Sun Has Been Spotless For More Than Two Weeks. IFLScience; 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-sun-has-been-spotless-for-more-than-two-weeks/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Further Improvement Needed in the Management of Magnetic Tapes by Goddard Space Flight Center. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Escamilla D. How Performance Following the Implementation of a New Structure Affects Employee Engagement. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA; 2012.

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

Firestone D and Brenna S. Holidays Holding Hands. New York Times 2013;D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Anderson, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Anderson, 2007; Feachem and Medlin, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Feachem and Medlin, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Schmidt et al., 2006)

About the journal

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