How to format your references using the Journal of Food and Drug Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Food and Drug Analysis. 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

[1]

Frommer WB. Biochemistry. CO2mmon sense. Science 2010;327:275–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sessolo M, Bolink HJ. Solar cells. Perovskite solar cells join the major league. Science 2015;350:917.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pfeifer R, Lungarella M, Iida F. Self-organization, embodiment, and biologically inspired robotics. Science 2007;318:1088–93.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Aulanier G, Golub L, Deluca EE, Cirtain JW, Kano R, Lundquist LL, et al. Slipping magnetic reconnection in coronal loops. Science 2007;318:1588–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Escarpa A, González MC, López MÁ. Agricultural and Food Electroanalysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Marle F. Managing Complex, High Risk Projects: A Guide to Basic and Advanced Project Management. London: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Soler L, Marescaux J. Virtual Surgical Simulation: The First Steps in a New Training. In: Fauquet-Alekhine P, Pehuet N, editors. Simulation Training: Fundamentals and Applications: Improving Professional Practice Through Simulation Training, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 95–117.

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 Food and Drug Analysis.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Brain-Eating Amoeba Kicks Off Fatal Immune Response. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-eating-amoeba-kicks-fatal-immune-response/ (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. Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Effort to Modernize the System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Black AM. Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Ohio Statewide Agricultural Leadership Program. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2006.

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]

Leland J. The Blink of an Eye. New York Times 2017:MB7.

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 Food and Drug Analysis
Abbreviation	J. Food Drug Anal.
ISSN (print)	1021-9498
Scope	Food Science Pharmacology