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]

Allen MR. Climate forecasting: possible or probable? Nature 2003;425:242.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Didenko YT, Suslick KS. The energy efficiency of formation of photons, radicals and ions during single-bubble cavitation. Nature 2002;418:394–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fahrner KA, Ryu WS, Berg HC. Biomechanics: bacterial flagellar switching under load. Nature 2003;423:938.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fuller BG, Lampson MA, Foley EA, Rosasco-Nitcher S, Le KV, Tobelmann P, et al. Midzone activation of aurora B in anaphase produces an intracellular phosphorylation gradient. Nature 2008;453:1132–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Jepsen TC. Distributed Storage Networks. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2003.

An edited book

[1]

Bonato A, Mitzenmacher M, Prałat P, editors. Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph: 10th International Workshop, WAW 2013, Cambridge, MA, USA, December 14-15, 2013, Proceedings. vol. 8305. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bunkowski L, Hedstrom A. Violent Environment: Women and Frontier Coffey County, Kansas: 1855–1880. In: Farris DN, Davis MA, Compton DR, editors. Illuminating How Identities, Stereotypes and Inequalities Matter through Gender Studies, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014, p. 55–69.

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]

Andrews R. Queen Nefertari’s Mummified Legs Have Been Identified In An Italian Museum. IFLScience 2016.

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. Advanced Technologies: Strengthened Federal Approach Needed to Help Identify and Mitigate Supply Risks for Critical Raw Materials. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

McGrew C. Living with Diabetes: The Value of Everyday Communication. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio 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]

Winerip M, Schwirtz M. Federal Inquiry on Rikers Turns to Union Chief. New York Times 2015: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 Food and Drug Analysis
Abbreviation	J. Food Drug Anal.
ISSN (print)	1021-9498
Scope	Food Science Pharmacology