How to format your references using the Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies. 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	Download the output style file
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

Miller, R. J. D. (2014). Femtosecond crystallography with ultrabright electrons and x-rays: capturing chemistry in action. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6175), 1108–1116.

A journal article with 2 authors

Golestani, A., & Gras, R. (2014). Can we predict the unpredictable? Scientific Reports, 4, 6834.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sha, W. E. I., Li, X., & Choy, W. C. H. (2014). Breaking the space charge limit in organic solar cells by a novel plasmonic-electrical concept. Scientific Reports, 4, 6236.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Revnivtsev, M., Sazonov, S., Churazov, E., Forman, W., Vikhlinin, A., & Sunyaev, R. (2009). Discrete sources as the origin of the Galactic X-ray ridge emission. Nature, 458(7242), 1142–1144.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alsop, A. (2013). Continuing Professional Development in Health and Social Care. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lugmayr, A. (Ed.). (2015). Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry: 7th International Workshop, FinanceCom 2014, Sydney, Australia, December 2014, Revised Papers (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 217). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Achenbach, T. M. (2014). Developmental, Quantitative, and Multicultural Assessment of Psychopathology. In M. Lewis & K. D. Rudolph (Eds.), Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology (pp. 67–85). Springer US.

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 Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 11). Stranded Astronauts Will Return To Earth After Month-Long Delay. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-stranded-astronauts-return-earth/

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. (1997). Safe and Drug-Free Schools: Balancing Accountability With State and Local Flexibility (HEHS-98-3). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Crossman, D. C. (2008). The impact of safety culture on worker motivation and the economic bottom line [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella University.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2002, December 13). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Cyrillic For All. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miller, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Golestani & Gras, 2014; Miller, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Golestani & Gras, 2014)
Three authors: (Sha et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Revnivtsev et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies
Abbreviation	Innov. Food Sci. Emerg. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1466-8564
Scope	Food Science General Chemistry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering