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

Flowers, J., 2004. The route to atomic and quantum standards. Science 306, 1324–1330.

A journal article with 2 authors

Margoliash, D., Tchernichovski, O., 2015. DEVELOPMENT. Marmoset kids actually listen. Science 349, 688–689.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferguson, N.M., Donnelly, C.A., Anderson, R.M., 2001. The foot-and-mouth epidemic in Great Britain: pattern of spread and impact of interventions. Science 292, 1155–1160.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Long, T.C., Errami, M., George, A.C., Sun, Z., Garner, H.R., 2009. Scientific integrity. Responding to possible plagiarism. Science 323, 1293–1294.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rebonato, R., 2004. Volatility and Correlation. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Fichera, G., Magenes, E. (Eds.), 2011. Integrali singolari e questioni connesse, C.I.M.E. Summer Schools. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Erchul, W.P., Martens, B.K., 2010. The School as a Setting for Consultation, in: Martens, B.K. (Ed.), School Consultation: Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Practice, Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 63–80.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Time To Take A Sick Day: Working When Ill Is Bad For You – And Your Company [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/time-take-sick-day-working-when-ill-bad-you-and-your-company/ (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, 1982. Questions Designed To Aid Managers and Auditors in Assessing the ADP Planning Process (No. 119637). 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

Mackay, E.A., 2009. Title I funding allocation of reserve funds after increased standards for academic proficiency under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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. 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 (Flowers, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Flowers, 2004; Margoliash and Tchernichovski, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Margoliash and Tchernichovski, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Long et al., 2009)

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