How to format your references using the International Journal of Food Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Food Microbiology. 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

Pielke, R., Jr, 2015. Gather data to reveal true extent of doping in sport. Nature 517, 529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Griffith, L.G., Naughton, G., 2002. Tissue engineering--current challenges and expanding opportunities. Science 295, 1009–1014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merkle, F.T., Mirzadeh, Z., Alvarez-Buylla, A., 2007. Mosaic organization of neural stem cells in the adult brain. Science 317, 381–384.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dixit, S., Crain, J., Poon, W.C.K., Finney, J.L., Soper, A.K., 2002. Molecular segregation observed in a concentrated alcohol-water solution. Nature 416, 829–832.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zito, R., 2011. Electrochemical Water Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lee, K.M., Park, S.-J., Lee, J.-H. (Eds.), 2014. Soft Computing in Big Data Processing, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Milovanović, M., Ferrer, R., Unsal, O.S., Cristal, A., Martorell, X., Ayguadé, E., Labarta, J., Valero, M., 2008. Transactional Memory and OpenMP, in: Chapman, B., Zheng, W., Gao, G.R., Sato, M., Ayguadé, E., Wang, D. (Eds.), A Practical Programming Model for the Multi-Core Era: 3rd International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2007, Beijing, China, June 3-7, 2007 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 37–53.

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 International Journal of Food Microbiology.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. Patagonia Proves Extinctions Down to Both Hunting And Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/patagonia-proves-extinctions-down-to-both-hunting-and-climate-change/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1980. Areas Needing Improvement in the Adult Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (No. CED-80-138). 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

Murphy-Perez, E., 2013. Vapor-Liquid-Solid (VLS) Grown Silica Nanowires as the Interface for Biorecognition Molecules in Biosensors (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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., Nolan, K., 2016. In Milwaukee, Worries Over Eliminating Rule That Police Must Live in City. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pielke, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Griffith and Naughton, 2002; Pielke, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Griffith and Naughton, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Dixit et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Food Microbiology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Food Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0168-1605
Scope	Food Science Microbiology General Medicine