How to format your references using the Journal of Eating Disorders citation style

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

1. Powell K. Age is no barrier. Nature. 2004;432:40–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Abbott A, Gitschel U. German scientists left in the cold as Berlin rejects rescue plan. Nature. 2000;406:663–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wang M, Vijayraghavan S, Goldman-Rakic PS. Selective D2 receptor actions on the functional circuitry of working memory. Science. 2004;303:853–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Han Z, Tang Z, Shen S, Zhao B, Zheng G, Yang J. Strengthening of graphene aerogels with tunable density and high adsorption capacity towards Pb2+. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5025.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lui SH. Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Haasis H-D, Kopfer H, Schönberger J, editors. Operations Research Proceedings 2005: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Bremen, September 7–9, 2005. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sak S. Socio-spatial Approaches for Media and Communication Research. In: Kubitschko S, Kaun A, editors. Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 59–74.

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 Eating Disorders.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Engineers Have Invented A “Tricorder” That Could Detect Cancer [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/engineers-have-invented-tricorder-star-trek/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Federal Highway Programs: Status of Federal Highway Programs in the Absence of Reauthorization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Nov. Report No.: T-RCED-98-38.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Stevenson CL. Availability and seasonal use of diurnal roosts by Rafinesque’s big-eared bat and southeastern myotis in bottomland hardwoods of Mississippi [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2008.

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

1. Chen DW, Walsh MW. City’s System for Pensions Shows Strain. New York Times. 2014 Aug 4;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Journal of Eating Disorders
Abbreviation	J. Eat. Disord.
ISSN (online)	2050-2974
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Behavioral Neuroscience Nutrition and Dietetics