How to format your references using the Journal of Ethnic Foods citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ethnic Foods. 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]

Strom SL. Microbial ecology of ocean biogeochemistry: a community perspective. Science 2008;320:1043–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Maceyka M, Spiegel S. Sphingolipid metabolites in inflammatory disease. Nature 2014;510:58–67.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shikano Y, Wada T, Horikawa J. Discrete-time quantum walk with feed-forward quantum coin. Sci Rep 2014;4:4427.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Branderhorst MPA, Londero P, Wasylczyk P, Brif C, Kosut RL, Rabitz H, et al. Coherent control of decoherence. Science 2008;320:638–43.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lee WF. Verilog Coding for Logic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Chen H-H, Chowdhury G, editors. The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network: 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2012, Taipei, Taiwan, November 12-15, 2012, Proceedings. vol. 7634. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Villmann T, Seiffert U, Schleif F-M, Brüß C, Geweniger T, Hammer B. Fuzzy Labeled Self-Organizing Map with Label-Adjusted Prototypes. In: Schwenker F, Marinai S, editors. Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition: Second IAPR Workshop, ANNPR 2006, Ulm, Germany, August 31-September 2, 2006. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 46–56.

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 Ethnic Foods.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. How We Discovered The ‘Higgs Bison’, Hiding In Plain Sight In Ancient Cave Art. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-we-discovered-the-higgs-bison-hiding-in-plain-sight-in-ancient-cave-art/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Improvements Recommended for Better Oversight of the Capitol Page School. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gallardo-Macias R. Tin (II) compounds as novel catalysts for the Kabachnik-Fields reaction: Studies in the synthesis of alpha-aminophosphonates under solvent free conditions and Synthesis of phosphonates and phosphates as reversible and irreversible inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

Brantley B. An Indomitable Woman Goes West. New York Times 2017:C5.

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 Ethnic Foods
Abbreviation	J. Ethn. Foods
ISSN (print)	2352-6181
Scope