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

Albrecht-Schmitt TE. Chemistry. NMR tools for determining the structure of plutonium materials. Science 2012; 336: 811–812.

A journal article with 2 authors

Towbin JA, Bowles NE. The failing heart. Nature 2002; 415: 227–233.

A journal article with 3 authors

Basole A, White LE, Fitzpatrick D. Mapping multiple features in the population response of visual cortex. Nature 2003; 423: 986–990.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rioual P, Andrieu-Ponel V, Rietti-Shati M, Battarbee RW, de Beaulieu JL, Cheddadi R et al. High-resolution record of climate stability in France during the last interglacial period. Nature 2001; 413: 293–296.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramm AG, Hoang NS. Dynamical Systems Method and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

Desai M, Jellis C, Yingchoncharoen T (eds.). An Atlas of Mitral Valve Imaging. Springer: London, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Palmerino CR. The Composition of Space, Time and Matter According to Isaac Newton and John Keill. In: Garber D (ed). The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013, pp 117–142.

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

Andrews R. These Four Things Could Cut U.S. Cancer Deaths In Half. IFLScience. 2016.

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. Public Health Information Technology: Additional Strategic Planning Needed to Guide HHS’s Efforts to Establish Electronic Situational Awareness Capabilities. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kerr AB. Exploring relationship awareness in organizational change using the Strength Deployment Inventory. 2012.

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

Koblin J. ‘Walking Dead’ Producers Sue Its Network. New York Times. 2017; : B5.

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