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

Gravitz L. Diagnostics: The early bird. Nature 2011; 480:S36-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stöhr K, Esveld M. Public health. Will vaccines be available for the next influenza pandemic? Science 2004; 306:2195–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schumacher MA, Hurlburt BK, Brennan RG. Crystal structures of SarA, a pleiotropic regulator of virulence genes in S. aureus. Nature 2001; 409:215–9.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rydell-Törmänen K, Andréasson K, Hesselstrand R, Westergren-Thorsson G. Absence of fibromodulin affects matrix composition, collagen deposition and cell turnover in healthy and fibrotic lung parenchyma. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6383.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dant S. Losing Eden. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Weisburd D, Feucht T, Hakimi I, Mock L, Perry S, editors. To Protect and To Serve: Policing in an Age of Terrorism. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Banks T. Holographic Cosmology and the Arrow of Time. In: Mersini-Houghton L, Vaas R, editors. The Arrows of Time: A Debate in Cosmology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. page 69–108.

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

Fang J. Earliest Evidence of Parental Care Found in Beetle Fossils [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/earliest-evidence-parental-care-found-beetle-fossils/

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. Stronger Measures Needed To Insure That Medical Diathermy Devices Are Safe and Effective. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Djajalaksana YM. A National Survey of Instructional Strategies Used to Teach Information Systems Courses: An Exploratory Investigation. 2011;

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. Justices Agree to Hear Case Challenging Voter ID Laws. New York Times2007; :A24.

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