How to format your references using the Journal of Food Science and Technology citation style

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

Foster V (2013) IBI series winner. Exploring the evolution of human mate preference. Science 342:1060–1061

A journal article with 2 authors

Kawasaki H, Taira K (2003) Hes1 is a target of microRNA-23 during retinoic-acid-induced neuronal differentiation of NT2 cells. Nature 423:838–842

A journal article with 3 authors

Vukusic P, Sambles JR, Lawrence CR (2000) Colour mixing in wing scales of a butterfly. Nature 404:457

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shu D-G, Morris SC, Han J, et al (2004) Ancestral echinoderms from the Chengjiang deposits of China. Nature 430:422–428

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor R (2006) Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Qi E, Shen J, Dou R (eds) (2013) Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management: Theory and Apply of Industrial Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Liesche J, Schulz A (2013) Symplasmic Transport in Phloem Loading and Unloading. In: Sokołowska K, Sowiński P (eds) Symplasmic Transport in Vascular Plants. Springer, New York, NY, pp 133–163

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 Science and Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Scientist Spotlight: Barbara McClintock. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientist-spotlight-barbara-mcclintock/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1988) Alaskan Offshore Shipping: Changing Federal Regulation and Service. 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

Valenzuela J (2014) Medicare advantage’s population make-up and its impact on the future of Medicare financing. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Brantley B (2017) Theater; The Last Days To Catch a Comet. New York Times AR2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Foster 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kawasaki and Taira 2003; Foster 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kawasaki and Taira 2003)
Three or more authors: (Shu et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Food Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Food Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0022-1155
ISSN (online)	0975-8402
Scope	Food Science