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]

Elvis M. Greater observatories: A midlife crisis for X-ray astronomy. Nature 2012;486:181–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Poole A, Penny D. Eukaryote evolution: engulfed by speculation. Nature 2007;447:913.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mendell JT, ap Rhys CMJ, Dietz HC. Separable roles for rent1/hUpf1 in altered splicing and decay of nonsense transcripts. Science 2002;298:419–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang H, Zhang X, Sun X, Ma Y. Shape-controlled synthesis of nanocarbons through direct conversion of carbon dioxide. Sci Rep 2013;3:3534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wasson CS. System Analysis, Design, and Development. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Fortino G, Trunfio P, editors. Internet of Things Based on Smart Objects: Technology, Middleware and Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Beitzel K, Imhoff AB. Post-traumatic Shoulder Stiffness. In: Itoi E, Arce G, Bain GI, Diercks RL, Guttmann D, Imhoff AB, et al., editors. Shoulder Stiffness: Current Concepts and Concerns, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 45–8.

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]

Hale T. Woman Who Received World’s First Partial Face Transplant Has Died. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-who-received-worlds-first-partial-face-transplant-has-died/ (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. Transportation Infrastructure: Major Program Revisions Present Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Harris SK. Dissecting the Disappearing Act: Discussing the Dissipation of Black Male Role Models in Black Communities. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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]

Walsh MW. Ex-Insurer Says ‘Perfect Scheme’ Bilks Medicare. New York Times 2017: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

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