How to format your references using the Grasas y Aceites citation style

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

Seeberger PH. 2005. Exploring life’s sweet spot. Nature 437, 1239.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vinson V, Pennisi E. 2011. Synthetic biology. The allure of synthetic biology. Introduction. Science 333, 1235.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sambur JB, Novet T, Parkinson BA. 2010. Multiple exciton collection in a sensitized photovoltaic system. Science 330, 63–66.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kaliteevski MA et al. 2014. Single and double bosonic stimulation of THz emission in polaritonic systems. Sci. Rep. 4, 5444.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarker SD, Nahar L. 2007. Chemistry for Pharmacy Students, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, England.

An edited book

Browning DJ ed. 2010. Diabetic Retinopathy: Evidence-Based Management, Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Karemore A et al. 2015. Photobioreactors for Improved Algal Biomass Production: Analysis and Design Considerations. in Das D, (Ed.) Algal Biorefinery: An Integrated Approach. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 103–124.

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 Grasas y Aceites.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. If You’re A Parent, You Need To Read This Letter. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/if-youre-a-parent-you-need-to-read-this-letter/ [Accessed October 30, 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. 1986. [Comments on NASA Agreement With Firm for Commercial Launch Services], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Madapatha SA. 2015. Energy efficient hierarchical wireless routing protocol (EEHW routing protocol). Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Stewart JB. 2017. Musk Has Trump’s Ear, and Market Takes Note. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Seeberger 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Seeberger 2005; Vinson & Pennisi 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Vinson & Pennisi 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kaliteevski et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Grasas y Aceites
Abbreviation	Grasas Aceites
ISSN (print)	0017-3495
ISSN (online)	1988-4214
Scope	Food Science Organic Chemistry