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

Ball P (2008) Water: water--an enduring mystery. Nature 452:291–292

A journal article with 2 authors

Ort DR, Long SP (2014) Botany. Limits on yields in the Corn Belt. Science 344:484–485

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma J, Wollmann R, Lindquist S (2002) Neurotoxicity and neurodegeneration when PrP accumulates in the cytosol. Science 298:1781–1785

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pinkett HW, Lee AT, Lum P, et al (2007) An inward-facing conformation of a putative metal-chelate-type ABC transporter. Science 315:373–377

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pierce DR (2013) Project Scheduling and Management for Construction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rubin E, Sakamoto K (eds) (2009) Modulation of Protein Stability in Cancer Therapy. Springer US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Hermansson A-K, Paciello I, Bernardini ML (2016) The Orchestra and Its Maestro: Shigella’s Fine-Tuning of the Inflammasome Platforms. In: Backert S (ed) Inflammasome Signaling and Bacterial Infections. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 91–115

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

Luntz S (2017) Bacterial Colonies Alternate Feeding Times To Survive Bad Times. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/bacterial-colonies-alternate-feeding-times-to-survive-bad-times/. 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 (1991) Mass Transit Grants: Scarce Federal Funds Misused in UMTA’s Philadelphia Region. 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

Boyle CN (2013) Support program for transition age youth: A grant proposal. 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

Vecsey G (2011) Letter of the Law 1, Proportion 0. New York Times SP4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ball 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Ball 2008; Ort and Long 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ort and Long 2014)
Three or more authors: (Pinkett et al. 2007)

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