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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Obesity Supplements. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Thomas DJ. Evidence for deep-water production in the North Pacific Ocean during the early Cenozoic warm interval. Nature 2004; 430: 65–68.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fujii MS, Portegies Zwart S. The origin of OB runaway stars. Science 2011; 334: 1380–1383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Collins SH, Wiggin MB, Sawicki GS. Reducing the energy cost of human walking using an unpowered exoskeleton. Nature 2015; 522: 212–215.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mak W, Nesterova TB, de Napoles M, Appanah R, Yamanaka S, Otte AP et al. Reactivation of the paternal X chromosome in early mouse embryos. Science 2004; 303: 666–669.

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

Hinchey M, Coyle L (eds.). Conquering Complexity. Springer: London, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Henkelman RM, Chen XJ, Sled JG. Disease phenotyping: structural and functional readouts. In: Herrling PL, Matter A, Rudin M (eds). Imaging in Drug Discovery and Early Clinical Trials. Birkhäuser: Basel, 2005, pp 151–184.

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 Supplements.

Blog post

Andrews R. Italian Supervolcano Could Be Closer To Erupting Than Previously Thought. IFLScience. 2017.https://www.iflscience.com/environment/italian-supervolcano-is-far-closer-to-erupting-than-previously-thought/ (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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Air Force Business System Schedule and Cost Estimates. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brown ER. Comparison of instructional techniques of high school economics teachers in Georgia and Shenzhen, China. 2011.

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

Poniewozik J. Fittingly, a Frank Finale for ‘Girls’. New York Times. 2017; : C1.

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 Supplements
Abbreviation	Int. J. Obes. Suppl.
ISSN (print)	2046-2166
ISSN (online)	2046-2174
Scope