How to format your references using the Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. T. E. Long, Science 344, 706 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

1. G. Shinar and M. Feinberg, Science 327, 1389 (2010).

A journal article with 3 authors

1. I. J. Finkelstein, M.-L. Visnapuu, and E. C. Greene, Nature 468, 983 (2010).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. P. A. Baker, G. O. Seltzer, S. C. Fritz, R. B. Dunbar, M. J. Grove, P. M. Tapia, S. L. Cross, H. D. Rowe, and J. P. Broda, Science 291, 640 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. J. Illian, A. Penttinen, H. Stoyan, and D. Stoyan, Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2008).

An edited book

1. C. Bini and J. Bech, editors , PHEs, Environment and Human Health: Potentially Harmful Elements in the Environment and the Impact on Human Health (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014).

A chapter in an edited book

1. G. Pollack, in World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006: August 27 – September 1, 2006 COEX Seoul, Korea “Imaging the Future Medicine,” edited by R. Magjarevic and J. H. Nagel (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007), pp. 4–4.

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 Measurement and Characterization.

Blog post

1. J. O`Callaghan, IFLScience (2015).

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, Financial Difficulties and Funding at D-Q University (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. M. K. Vu, Reducing Mental Health Provider Burnout through Wellness: A Grant Proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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. J. Wagner, New York Times D6 (2017).

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 Measurement and Characterization
ISSN (print)	2193-4126
ISSN (online)	2193-4134
Scope	Food Science General Chemical Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality