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

Schluter D. Evidence for ecological speciation and its alternative. Science 2009; 323: 737–741.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chakravarti A, Little P. Nature, nurture and human disease. Nature 2003; 421: 412–414.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alfe D, Gillan MJ, Price GD. Constraints on the composition of the Earth’s core from ab initio calculations. Nature 2000; 405: 172–175.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Britton-Davidian J, Catalan J, da Graça Ramalhinho M, Ganem G, Auffray JC, Capela R et al. Rapid chromosomal evolution in island mice. Nature 2000; 403: 158.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shreves R, Dunwoodie B. Drupal® 7 Bible. Wiley Publishing, Inc.: Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2011.

An edited book

Chmielewski LJ, Kozera R, Shin B-S, Wojciechowski K (eds.). Computer Vision and Graphics: International Conference, ICCVG 2014, Warsaw, Poland, September 15-17, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Lin J, Wu W. FEM Implementation of Micropolar Hypoplastic Model. In: Yang Q, Zhang J-M, Zheng H, Yao Y (eds). Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials: Advances and New Applications. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013, pp 59–62.

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

Luntz S. Gut Microbes Control Parkinson’s Disease In Mice. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gut-microbes-control-parkinsons-disease-in-mice/ (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. District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program: Actions Needed to Address Weaknesses in Administration and Oversight. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Amin RM. Detecting targeted malicious email through supervised classification of persistent threat and recipient oriented features. 2010.

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

Hayes S by T. The Chess Set on a Table Between Two Chairs. New York Times. 2017; : MM19.

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