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

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

Schrag DP. Preparing to capture carbon. Science 2007; 315: 812–813.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chiu C, Weliky M. Neuroscience. Synaptic modification by vision. Science 2003; 300: 1890–1891.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bowler C, Karl DM, Colwell RR. Microbial oceanography in a sea of opportunity. Nature 2009; 459: 180–184.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Goley ED, Ohkawa T, Mancuso J, Woodruff JB, D’Alessio JA, Cande WZ et al. Dynamic nuclear actin assembly by Arp2/3 complex and a baculovirus WASP-like protein. Science 2006; 314: 464–467.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baber RL. The Language of Mathematics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

Jackson DR. High-Frequency Seafloor Acoustics. Springer: New York, NY, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Breussegem T, Steyaert M. Control of Fully Integrated Capacitive Converters. In: Steyaert M (ed). CMOS Integrated Capacitive DC-DC Converters. Springer: New York, NY, 2013, pp 111–139.

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 Obesity.

Blog post

Fang J. How the Bubonic Plague Bacterium Co-Opted Fleas. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-bubonic-plague-bacterium-co-opted-fleas/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Highway Trust Fund: Pilot Program Could Help Determine the Viability of Mileage Fees for Certain Vehicles. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Blumenthal PM. Local Land Use Regulatory Regimes and Residential Development Outcomes: An Analysis of Subdivision Review in Four Counties in the DC Region. 2014.

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

Pols M. With Friends Like These. New York Times. 2015; : BR18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Obesity
Abbreviation	Int. J. Obes. (Lond)
ISSN (print)	0307-0565
ISSN (online)	1476-5497
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Nutrition and Dietetics