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

Prentice IC (2010) Atmospheric science. The burning issue. Science 330:1636–1637

A journal article with 2 authors

Kobayashi T, Hasui K (2014) Efficient immunization strategies to prevent financial contagion. Sci Rep 4:3834

A journal article with 3 authors

Reik W, Dean W, Walter J (2001) Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development. Science 293:1089–1093

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sousa C, Novais Â, Magalhães A, et al (2013) Diverse high-risk B2 and D Escherichia coli clones depicted by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. Sci Rep 3:3278

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopp V (2000) Grundlagen der Life Sciences. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Cai L, Cheng S-W, Lam T-W (eds) (2013) Algorithms and Computation: 24th International Symposium, ISAAC 2013, Hong Kong, China, December 16-18, 2013, Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Borgefors G, Nyström I, di Baja GS (2008) Discrete Skeletons from Distance Transforms in 2D and 3D. In: Siddiqi K, Pizer SM (eds) Medial Representations: Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 155–190

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

Carpineti A (2017) Scientists Discover A New Intriguing Fast Radio Burst. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-discover-a-new-intriguing-fast-radio-burst/. 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 (1992) Federal Research: SEMATECH’s Technological Progress and Proposed R&D Program. 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

Carman SB (2013) Leadership style and church attendance: An ex post facto study of Churches of Christ in Texas. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

(nyt) SK (2004) World Briefing | Asia: China And Russia Plan First Joint Military Exercise. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prentice 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Prentice 2010; Kobayashi and Hasui 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kobayashi and Hasui 2014)
Three or more authors: (Sousa et al. 2013)

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