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

Sparks, S. Use the Calm between the Storms. Nature 2007, 450, 354.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barkana, R.; Loeb, A. Spectral Signature of Cosmological Infall of Gas around the First Quasars. Nature 2003, 421, 341–343.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ronshaugen, M.; McGinnis, N.; McGinnis, W. Hox Protein Mutation and Macroevolution of the Insect Body Plan. Nature 2002, 415, 914–917.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Viboud, C.; Bjørnstad, O.N.; Smith, D.L.; Simonsen, L.; Miller, M.A.; Grenfell, B.T. Synchrony, Waves, and Spatial Hierarchies in the Spread of Influenza. Science 2006, 312, 447–451.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov, B.M. Cluster Processes in Gases and Plasmas; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2010; ISBN 9783527628650.

An edited book

Yengoh, G.T. Use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to Assess Land Degradation at Multiple Scales: Current Status, Future Trends, and Practical Considerations; Dent, D., Olsson, L., Tengberg, A.E., Tucker, C.J., III, Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; ISBN 9783319241104.

A chapter in an edited book

Verity, D.H.; Rose, G.E. Lacrimal Canalicular Inflammation and Occlusion: Diagnosis and Management. In Oculoplastics and Orbit: Aesthetic and Functional Oculofacial Plastic Problem-Solving in the 21st Century; Guthoff, R.F., Katowitz, J.A., Eds.; Essentials in Ophthalmology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp. 67–77 ISBN 9783540855415.

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

Davis, J. Republicans Withdraw Plan To Sell Off 3.3 Million Acres Of Public Land After Intense Opposition Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/republicans-withdraw-plan-to-sell-off-33-million-acres-of-public-land-after-intense-opposition/ (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 Aviation Safety: Commuter Airports Should Participate in the Airport Certification Program; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1987;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Verkaik, P. Enhancing Networking Protocols in Widely Deployed Devices. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, 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

Greenhouse, L. Women Suddenly Scarce Among Justices’ Clerks. New York Times 2006, A1.

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