How to format your references using the Journal of Food Protection citation style

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

Thompson, C. 2015. CRISPR: Move beyond differences. Nature 522:415.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schappacher, M., and A. Deffieux. 2008. Synthesis of macrocyclic copolymer brushes and their self-assembly into supramolecular tubes. Science 319:1512–1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

Silbergeld, E., S. Lerman, and L. Hushka. 2004. Ethics. Human health research ethics. Science 305:949.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sakurai, T., E. Mihaliuk, F. Chirila, and K. Showalter. 2002. Design and control of wave propagation patterns in excitable media. Science 296:2009–2012.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mubarak, S. 2010. Construction Project Scheduling and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Yamada, S. 2016. OSS Reliability Measurement and Assessment1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Deshpande, H., and S. Deshpande. 2016. Cardiac Diseases in Pregnancy, p. 33–43. In A. Gandhi, N. Malhotra, J. Malhotra, N. Gupta, and N.M. Bora (eds.), Principles of Critical Care in Obstetrics: Volume II. Springer India, New Delhi.

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 Protection.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2017. Aerial Footage Of The Enormous Antarctic Ice Crack That’s Worrying Scientists. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/aerial-video-shows-the-awesome-beauty-of-a-huge-antarctic-ice-crack/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. 1995. School Safety: Promising Initiatives for Addressing School Violence. HEHS-95-106. 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

Britigan, D. H. 2009. Health information sources and health literacy levels of Latinos in a midwestern tri -state area. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 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

Billard, M. 2010. Baubles And Bags To Customize. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Food Protection
Abbreviation	J. Food Prot.
ISSN (print)	0362-028X
ISSN (online)	1944-9097
Scope	Food Science Microbiology