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

Gilmore, G., 2004. Astronomy. The short spectacular life of a superstar. Science 304, 1915–1916.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bundock, P., Hooykaas, P., 2005. An Arabidopsis hAT-like transposase is essential for plant development. Nature 436, 282–284.

A journal article with 3 authors

Royden, L.H., Burchfiel, B.C., van der Hilst, R.D., 2008. The geological evolution of the Tibetan Plateau. Science 321, 1054–1058.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

He, Y., Hou, L., Wang, H., Hu, K., McConkey, B., 2014. A modelling approach to evaluate the long-term effect of soil texture on spring wheat productivity under a rain-fed condition. Sci. Rep. 4, 5736.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnett, J.E., Johnson, W.B., 2015. Ethics Desk Reference for Counselors. American Counseling Association, Alexandria, VA, USA.

An edited book

Ishii, H., Suematsu, M., Tanishita, K., Suzuki, H. (Eds.), 2005. Organ Microcirculation: A Gateway to Diagnostic and Therapeutic Interventions, Keio University International Symposia for Life Sciences and Medicine. Springer, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Mucherino, A., Papajorgji, P.J., Pardalos, P.M., 2009. Artificial Neural Networks, in: Papajorgji, P.J., Pardalos, P.M. (Eds.), Data Mining in Agriculture, Springer Optimization and Its Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 107–122.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Shape Of A Woman’s Vagina Can Seriously Impact Her Sex Life, According To A New Study [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2012. Commercial Space Launch Act: Preliminary Information on Issues to Consider for Reauthorization (No. GAO-12-767T). 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

Chlarson-Varner, G., 2010. Falls among older adults 65 years and older (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kishkovsky, S., 2002. A Government Train To Tolstoy’s Birthplace. New York Times 53.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gilmore, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bundock and Hooykaas, 2005; Gilmore, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Bundock and Hooykaas, 2005)
Three or more authors: (He et al., 2014)

About the journal

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