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

Chen, I.A., 2006. GE Prize-winning essay. The emergence of cells during the origin of life. Science 314, 1558–1559.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thiele, A., Stoner, G., 2003. Neuronal synchrony does not correlate with motion coherence in cortical area MT. Nature 421, 366–370.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maurya, S.R., Chaturvedi, D., Mahalakshmi, R., 2013. Modulating lipid dynamics and membrane fluidity to drive rapid folding of a transmembrane barrel. Sci. Rep. 3, 1989.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, C., Sadik, M.M., Mauk, M.G., Edelstein, P.H., Bushman, F.D., Gross, R., Bau, H.H., 2014. Nuclemeter: a reaction-diffusion based method for quantifying nucleic acids undergoing enzymatic amplification. Sci. Rep. 4, 7335.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aronson, D.R., 2006. Evidence-Based Technical Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Im, S., 2013. Photo-Excited Charge Collection Spectroscopy: Probing the traps in field-effect transistors, SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Scott, A., 2006. Physicalism, Chaos and Reductionism, in: Tuszynski, J.A. (Ed.), The Emerging Physics of Consciousness, The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 171–191.

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

Davis, J., 2016. Tardigrade DNA Analysis Reveals A Whole Genetic Arsenal Used To Make Them Almost Indestructible [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tardigrade-dna-analysis-reveals-a-whole-genetic-arsenal-used-to-make-them-almost-indestructible/ (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, 1977. Responsibilities, Actions, and Coordination of Federal Agencies in International Telecommunications Services (No. CED-77-132). 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

Day, K.C., 2017. CPA Perceptions of Human Skills for Professional Competency Development Needs (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Saslow, L., 2008. Megyn Kelly and Douglas Brunt. New York Times ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chen, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chen, 2006; Thiele and Stoner, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Thiele and Stoner, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

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