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

Dennell R. Palaeoanthropology: Homo sapiens in China 80,000 years ago. Nature 2015; 526: 647–648.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joanicot M, Ajdari A. Applied physics. Droplet control for microfluidics. Science 2005; 309: 887–888.

A journal article with 3 authors

Han JS, Szak ST, Boeke JD. Transcriptional disruption by the L1 retrotransposon and implications for mammalian transcriptomes. Nature 2004; 429: 268–274.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hu X, Kang J, Lu K, Zhou R, Mu L, Zhou Q. Graphene oxide amplifies the phytotoxicity of arsenic in wheat. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 6122.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGuiggan P. GPRS in Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

Korkusuz F (ed.). Musculoskeletal Research and Basic Science. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Jensen RR, Hardin PJ. Using Satellite Data to Estimate Urban Leaf Area Index. In: Jensen RR, Gatrell JD, McLean D (eds). Geo-Spatial Technologies in Urban Environments: Policy, Practice, and Pixels. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007, pp 93–107.

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

Andrew E. Ten Years After The De Menezes Killing, We’re No Better At Identifying Faces. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/brain/ten-years-after-de-menezes-killing-we-re-no-better-identifying-faces/ (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. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Information on Expenditures, Schedule, and Cost Estimates, Fiscal Years 2004 -- 2030. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bailoor S. Implicit-Explicit Time stepping for a Two-Dimensional Inviscid Fluid-Structure Interaction Solver. 2016.

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

Gordon MR, Schmitt E. Showdown Expected in the Euphrates Valley, but It’s Complicated. New York Times. 2017; : A6.

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

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