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

Begun, D. R. 2004. Anthropology. The earliest hominins--is less more? Science 303:1478–1480.

A journal article with 2 authors

Visscher, M., and T. Taylor. 2014. Pressure ulcers in the hospitalized neonate: rates and risk factors. Sci. Rep. 4:7429.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, S.-K., T. C. Badea, and S. Hattar. 2011. Photoentrainment and pupillary light reflex are mediated by distinct populations of ipRGCs. Nature 476:92–95.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wilhelm, B. T., S. Marguerat, S. Watt, F. Schubert, V. Wood, I. Goodhead, C. J. Penkett, J. Rogers, and J. Bähler. 2008. Dynamic repertoire of a eukaryotic transcriptome surveyed at single-nucleotide resolution. Nature 453:1239–1243.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wahbi, M. 2013. Algorithms and Ordering Heuristics for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Bottiglia, R., and F. Pichler. 2016. Crowdfunding for SMEs: A European Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Cogliati, B., and Y. Seurin. 2016. EWCDM: An Efficient, Beyond-Birthday Secure, Nonce-Misuse Resistant MAC, p. 121–149. In M. Robshaw, and J. Katz (eds.), Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2016: 36th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 14-18, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. 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

Hale, T. 2016. Three Deer Were Found In The Belly Of This Burmese Python In Florida. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/three-deer-were-found-in-the-belly-of-this-burmese-python-in-florida/. 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. 1973. Bid Rejection Protest. B-178720. 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

Peters, A. 2009. The mark of gender: Depicting power and the female body in colonial Peru. 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

Feeney, K. 2009. Tasting Every Calorie. 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

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