How to format your references using the Journal of Cereal Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cereal Science. 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

Gordon, D.M., 2013. The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies. Nature 498, 91–93.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sato, T., Clevers, H., 2013. Growing self-organizing mini-guts from a single intestinal stem cell: mechanism and applications. Science 340, 1190–1194.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kassen, R., Llewellyn, M., Rainey, P.B., 2004. Ecological constraints on diversification in a model adaptive radiation. Nature 431, 984–988.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Albarede, F., Blichert-Toft, J., Vervoort, J.D., Gleason, J.D., Rosing, M., 2000. Hf-Nd isotope evidence for a transient dynamic regime in the early terrestrial mantle. Nature 404, 488–490.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Razik, H., 2013. Handbook of Asynchronous Machine with Variable Speed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ghilardi, S., Sebastiani, R. (Eds.), 2009. Frontiers of Combining Systems: 7th International Symposium, FroCoS 2009, Trento, Italy, September 16-18, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Broekel, T., Hartog, M., 2013. Determinants of Cross-Regional R&D Collaboration Networks: An Application of Exponential Random Graph Models, in: Scherngell, T. (Ed.), The Geography of Networks and R&D Collaborations, Advances in Spatial Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 49–70.

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 Journal of Cereal Science.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Hungry Bats Jam Each Other’s Sonar Signals [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hungry-bats-jam-each-others-sonar-signals/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2002. Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Needs to Improve Its Decisionmaking Process for Its Route and Service Proposals (No. GAO-02-398). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Patil, A.V., 2017. Programming QR code scanner, communicating Android devices, and unit testing in fortified cards (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2015. The Amazin’ Mets’ Wives on the Brink in 1969. New York Times C34.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gordon, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Gordon, 2013; Sato and Clevers, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Sato and Clevers, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Albarede et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cereal Science
Abbreviation	J. Cereal Sci.
ISSN (print)	0733-5210
Scope	Food Science Biochemistry