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

Benkler Y. Intellectual property. Commons-based strategies and the problems of patents. Science 2004; 305: 1110–1111.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pope BD, Gilbert DM. Genetics: Up and down in Down’s syndrome. Nature 2014; 508: 323–324.

A journal article with 3 authors

Curtis R, Groarke A, Sullivan F. Stress and self-efficacy predict psychological adjustment at diagnosis of prostate cancer. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 5569.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ogawa N, Hoshisashi K, Sekiguchi H, Ichiyanagi K, Matsushita Y, Hirohata Y et al. Tracking 3D picometer-scale motions of single nanoparticles with high-energy electron probes. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 2201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Golding P. Next Generation Wireless Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

Chignell M, Cordy JR, Kealey R, Ng J, Yesha Y (eds.). The Personal Web: A Research Agenda. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Natsume K. Brain-Inspired e-Learning System Using EEG. In: Lee M, Hirose A, Hou Z-G, Kil RM (eds). Neural Information Processing: 20th International Conference, ICONIP 2013, Daegu, Korea, November 3-7, 2013. Proceedings, Part III. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013, pp 25–32.

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

Luntz S. Wren Shows New Zealand Didn’t Entirely Drown. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wren-shows-new-zealand-didnt-entirely-drown/ (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. Indian Affairs: Key Actions Needed to Ensure Safety and Health at Indian School Facilities. 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

Linsenmeyer JP. A Nice Place to Live and Work: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of a Residential Life Living-Learning Community and Employment Model at a Top-Tier Midwestern University. 2017.

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

Kenigsberg B. 6 Days. New York Times. 2017; : C9.

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