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

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

Check, E., 2003. Biologists wary that cash up front could mean cuts later. Nature 421, 677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fernández, A., Lynch, M., 2011. Non-adaptive origins of interactome complexity. Nature 474, 502–505.

A journal article with 3 authors

Normark, S., Nilsson, C., Normark, B.H., 2005. Microbiology. A pathogen attacks while keeping up defense. Science 307, 1211–1212.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, L., Vysotsky, M.O., Bogdan, A., Bolte, M., Böhmer, V., 2004. Multiple catenanes derived from calix[4]arenes. Science 304, 1312–1314.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grove, L.C., 1997. Groups and Characters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Berenson, G.S. (Ed.), 2011. Evolution of Cardio-Metabolic Risk from Birth to Middle Age: The Bogalusa Heart Study. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Nielsen, S.H., Parsons, S., 2007. A Generalization of Dung’s Abstract Framework for Argumentation: Arguing with Sets of Attacking Arguments, in: Maudet, N., Parsons, S., Rahwan, I. (Eds.), Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 54–73.

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 Composition and Analysis.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2016. “The Hare Psychopathy Checklist”: The Test That Will Tell You If Someone Is A Sociopath [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/the-hare-psychopathy-checklist-test-that-will-tell-you-if-someone-is-a-sociopath/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 2006. Internet Infrastructure: DHS Faces Challenges in Developing a Joint Public/Private Recovery Plan (No. GAO-06-672). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hongxia, D., 2005. Social Process of Environmental Risk Perception, Preferences of Risk Management and Public Participation in Decision Making: A Cross-Cultural Study Between the United States and China (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Supreme Court Turns Down Cases on Religious Separation. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Check, 2003; Fernández and Lynch, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Fernández and Lynch, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
Abbreviation	J. Food Compost. Anal.
ISSN (print)	0889-1575
Scope	Food Science