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

Service, R. F. 2000. CHEMISTRY: Crystals Branch Out Into Exotic Shapes. Science 290:1875.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scher, H. D., and E. E. Martin. 2006. Timing and climatic consequences of the opening of Drake Passage. Science 312:428–430.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berken, A., C. Thomas, and A. Wittinghofer. 2005. A new family of RhoGEFs activates the Rop molecular switch in plants. Nature 436:1176–1180.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Slep, K. C., M. A. Kercher, W. He, C. W. Cowan, T. G. Wensel, and P. B. Sigler. 2001. Structural determinants for regulation of phosphodiesterase by a G protein at 2.0 A. Nature 409:1071–1077.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, F. S. C., and J. Agustí-Cullell. 2005. Knowledge Coordination. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Jendek, E. 2014. Host Plants of World Agrilus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae): A Critical Review. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kanaya, T., Y. Takayama, Y. Ogino, G. Matsuba, and K. Nishida. 2007. Precursor of Primary Nucleation in Isotactic Polystyrene Induced by Shear Flow, p. 87–96. In G. Reiter, and G.R. Strobl (eds.), Progress in Understanding of Polymer Crystallization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

O`Callaghan, J. 2015. Space Plane Company Develops Revolutionary Hybrid Rocket Engine That Could Take You Anywhere In The World In Four Hours. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/space-plane-company-receives-funding-develop-their-revolutionary-hybrid-rocket-engine/. 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 Facilities: America’s Schools Not Designed or Equipped for 21st Century. HEHS-95-95. 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

Graves, I. S. 2010. Positioning of Fifth Grade Students in Small-Group Settings: Naming Participation in Discussion-Based Mathematics. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Chira, S. 2017. Le Pen Shifts A Strategy: Feminizing The Far Right. 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