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

Walsh, C.A., 2013. Peter Huttenlocher (1931-2013). Nature 502, 172.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feuillet, C., Eversole, K., 2009. Plant science. Solving the maze. Science 326, 1071–1072.

A journal article with 3 authors

Foulquier, S., Steckelings, U.M., Unger, T., 2013. Perspective: A tale of two receptors. Nature 493, S9.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Di Paolo, G., Moskowitz, H.S., Gipson, K., Wenk, M.R., Voronov, S., Obayashi, M., Flavell, R., Fitzsimonds, R.M., Ryan, T.A., De Camilli, P., 2004. Impaired PtdIns(4,5)P2 synthesis in nerve terminals produces defects in synaptic vesicle trafficking. Nature 431, 415–422.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simonović, S.P., 2010. Systems Approach to Management of Disasters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Altizer, T.J.J., 2016. This Silence Must Now Speak: Letters of Thomas J. J. Altizer, 1995–2015, Radical Theologies. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaloupek, G., 2012. Emancipation of the Peasantry in Lower Austria: The Economists’ Views, the Role of the Estates, and the Revolution of 1848, in: Backhaus, J.G. (Ed.), The Liberation of the Serfs: The Economics of Unfree Labor. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 19–31.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-read-and-understand-scientific-paper-guide-non-scientists/ (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, 1987. Education Information: Changes in Funds and Priorities Have Affected Production and Quality (No. PEMD-88-4). 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

Kelly, E.J., 2016. What experiences create and nurture a love of science? (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

Brantley, B., 2016. The Here and Now and the Hereafter: Getting to Know the Man in the Makeup. New York Times C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walsh, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Feuillet and Eversole, 2009; Walsh, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Feuillet and Eversole, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Di Paolo et al., 2004)

About the journal

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