How to format your references using the Foods citation style

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

Abbott, A. Hopes of Biotech Interest Spur Latvian Population Genetics. Nature 2001, 412, 468.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheney, R.E.; Rodriguez, O.C. Cell Biology. A Switch to Release the Motor. Science 2001, 293, 1263–1264.

A journal article with 3 authors

Russell, S.H.; Hancock, M.P.; McCullough, J. The Pipeline. Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences. Science 2007, 316, 548–549.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fumagalli, L.; Esfandiar, A.; Fabregas, R.; Hu, S.; Ares, P.; Janardanan, A.; Yang, Q.; Radha, B.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; et al. Anomalously Low Dielectric Constant of Confined Water. Science 2018, 360, 1339–1342.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raynaud, H.; Arrow, K.J. Managerial Logic; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2011; ISBN 9781118602188.

An edited book

Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing: Analysis of Personality in the Psychological Report; Kellerman, H., Burry, A., Eds.; Fourth Edition.; Springer: New York, NY, 2007; ISBN 9780387713694.

A chapter in an edited book

Legutke, S. Building Earth System Models. In Earth System Modelling - Volume 5: Tools for Configuring, Building and Running Models; Riley, G., Budich, R., Redler, R., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 45–54 ISBN 9783642239311.

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 Foods.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Will The Presidential Candidates Have A Substantive Debate On Climate Change? (accessed on 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 Management Issues at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wells, J.P. A Case Study of Educators’ Perceptions of the Effects of High -Stakes Testing and Accountability Policies on High- and Low-Poverty Middle Schools in a Maryland School District. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2010.

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

Park, L.S. Endangered Daughters. New York Times 2013, BR21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Foods
Abbreviation	Foods
ISSN (online)	2304-8158
Scope