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

Lander ES. Genome-sequencing anniversary. The accelerator. Science 2011; 331:1024.

A journal article with 2 authors

Otto SP, Jarne P. Evolution. Haploids--hapless or happening? Science 2001; 292:2441–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Daviter T, Murphy FV 4th, Ramakrishnan V. Molecular biology. A renewed focus on transfer RNA. Science 2005; 308:1123–4.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hiddingh L, Raktoe RS, Jeuken J, Hulleman E, Noske DP, Kaspers GJL, Vandertop WP, Wesseling P, Wurdinger T. Identification of temozolomide resistance factors in glioblastoma via integrative miRNA/mRNA regulatory network analysis. Sci Rep 2014; 4:5260.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris AS. ISO 14000 Environmental Management Standards. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Litrico X. Modeling and Control of Hydrosystems. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Amaldi E. Fritz’s First Marriage. In: Braccini S, Ereditato A, Scampoli P, editors. The Adventurous Life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, Physicist (1903-1966). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. page 23–5.

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

Andrew E. How We Discovered ‘Impossible’ Material That Both Conducts Electrity – And Doesn’t [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-we-discovered-impossible-material-both-conducts-electrity-and-doesn-t/

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. Low-Income and Minority Serving Institutions: Education Has Taken Steps to Improve Monitoring and Assistance, but Further Progress Is Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Staal J. The Relationships Among Sleep Quality, Frailty, and Falls in Older Adults Residing in the Community. 2017;

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

Eligon J. Protests Disrupt Commerce in St. Louis, and Regional Leaders Take Notice. New York Times2017; :A11.

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

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