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

Clayton, R. N. (2006). Planetary science: Meteorites and their parent asteroids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5794), 1743–1744.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raiborg, C., & Stenmark, H. (2009). The ESCRT machinery in endosomal sorting of ubiquitylated membrane proteins. Nature, 458(7237), 445–452.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kusumbe, A. P., Ramasamy, S. K., & Adams, R. H. (2014). Coupling of angiogenesis and osteogenesis by a specific vessel subtype in bone. Nature, 507(7492), 323–328.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Darieva, Z., Bulmer, R., Pic-Taylor, A., Doris, K. S., Geymonat, M., Sedgwick, S. G., Morgan, B. A., & Sharrocks, A. D. (2006). Polo kinase controls cell-cycle-dependent transcription by targeting a coactivator protein. Nature, 444(7118), 494–498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cotarca, L., & Eckert, H. (2005). Phosgenations - A Handbook. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Banichuk, N. (2014). Mechanics of Moving Materials (J. Jeronen, P. Neittaanmäki, T. Saksa, & T. Tuovinen, Eds.; Vol. 207). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kislinger, T. (2007). Mass Spectrometry-based Systems Biology. In I. Jurisica, D. A. Wigle, & B. Wong (Eds.), Cancer Informatics in the Post Genomic Era: Toward Information-Based Medicine (pp. 59–83). 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, April 4). Revealed: Why Your Pinot Noir Is Actually A Pinot Blanc (Or Was That A Pinot Gris?). IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/revealed-why-your-pinot-noir-actually-pinot-blanc-or-was-pinot-gris/

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). Chief Information Officers: Ensuring Strong Leadership and an Effective Council (T-AIMD-98-22). 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

Brawley, K. (2010). A nutrition and physical activity curriculum for pregnant women [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Feeney, K. (2010, November 21). When the Pie Line Grows Long. New York Times, NJ15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clayton, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Clayton, 2006; Raiborg & Stenmark, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Raiborg & Stenmark, 2009)
Three authors: (Kusumbe et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Darieva et al., 2006)

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

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