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

Barrett, T. A. (2012). Developmental biology. Intestinal wound healing requires a Wnt balancing act. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6103), 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farrow, T., & Vedral, V. (2014). Scale-estimation of quantum coherent energy transport in multiple-minima systems. Scientific Reports, 4, 5520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaeberlein, M., Rabinovitch, P. S., & Martin, G. M. (2015). Healthy aging: The ultimate preventative medicine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6265), 1191–1193.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Fountain, S. J., Parkinson, K., Young, M. T., Cao, L., Thompson, C. R. L., & North, R. A. (2007). An intracellular P2X receptor required for osmoregulation in Dictyostelium discoideum. Nature, 448(7150), 200–203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Chartered Institute of Building. (2008). Code of Practice for Project Management for Construction and Development. Blackwell Publishing.

An edited book

Dai, J. S., Zoppi, M., & Kong, X. (Eds.). (2012). Advances in Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots I. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Quintero, R., Torres, M., Moreno, M., & Guzmán, G. (2009). Towards a Semantic Representation of Raster Spatial Data. In K. Janowicz, M. Raubal, & S. Levashkin (Eds.), GeoSpatial Semantics: Third International Conference, GeoS 2009, Mexico City, Mexico, December 3-4, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 63–82). Springer.

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

Taub, B. (2016, June 2). Can You Really Get High From Snorting Chocolate? IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2008). National Transportation Safety Board: Progress Made in Management Practices, Investigation Priorities, Training Center Use, and Information Security, But These Areas Continue to Need Improvement (GAO-08-652T). 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

Bratton, K. J. (2014). Modeling and Control of Heterogeneous Tumors Under Chemotherapy [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Burghardt, L. F. (2007, January 7). Neighbors Protest Flea Market’s Move to Belmont Park. New York Times, 14WC6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barrett, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Barrett, 2012; Farrow & Vedral, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Farrow & Vedral, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Fountain et al., 2007)

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