How to format your references using the GM Crops and Food: Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for GM Crops and Food: Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain. 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

Luo Z-X. Journal club. A palaeontologist ponders how genes and fossils can illuminate mammalian evolution. Nature 2010; 465:669.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nitzan A, Ratner MA. Electron transport in molecular wire junctions. Science 2003; 300:1384–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoskinson E, Packard RE, Haard TM. Oscillatory motion: quantum whistling in superfluid helium-4. Nature 2005; 433:376.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lin Y-J, Compton RL, Jiménez-García K, Porto JV, Spielman IB. Synthetic magnetic fields for ultracold neutral atoms. Nature 2009; 462:628–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pepper G, Oliver MJ. The Liquidity Theory of Asset Prices. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Skersys T, Butleris R, Butkiene R, editors. Information and Software Technologies: 19th International Conference, ICIST 2013, Kaunas, Lithuania, October 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Ambler T, Chavan M, Clarke J, Matthews N. Climates of Communication: Collegiality, Affect, Spaces and Attitudes in Peer Review. In: Sachs J, Parsell M, editors. Peer Review of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: International Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. page 67–84.

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 GM Crops and Food: Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain.

Blog post

Luntz S. People Who Suffer Migraines Have Different Mouth Bacteria [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/people-who-suffer-migraines-have-different-mouth-bacteria/

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. Telecommunications: Information Collection and Management at the Federal Communications Commission. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Carman SB. Leadership style and church attendance: An ex post facto study of Churches of Christ in Texas. 2013;

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

Fitzgerald A. Worlds in a Cell. New York Times2017; :BR13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	GM Crops and Food: Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain
Abbreviation	GM Crops
ISSN (print)	1938-1999
ISSN (online)	1938-2006
Scope	General Medicine