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

Chadwick WW Jr (2006) Earth science. A submarine volcano is caught in the act. Science 314:1887–1888

A journal article with 2 authors

Boller T, He SY (2009) Innate immunity in plants: an arms race between pattern recognition receptors in plants and effectors in microbial pathogens. Science 324:742–744

A journal article with 3 authors

Richmond JE, Weimer RM, Jorgensen EM (2001) An open form of syntaxin bypasses the requirement for UNC-13 in vesicle priming. Nature 412:338–341

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gu T-P, Guo F, Yang H, et al (2011) The role of Tet3 DNA dioxygenase in epigenetic reprogramming by oocytes. Nature 477:606–610

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schoon N (2016) Modern Islamic Banking. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Runde V (2005) A Taste of Topology. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Brandão S, Parente M, Silva AR, et al (2015) The Impairment of Female Pelvic Ligaments and Its Relation With Pelvic Floor Dysfunction: Biomechanical Analysis. In: Tavares JMRS, Natal Jorge RM (eds) Computational and Experimental Biomedical Sciences: Methods and Applications: ICCEBS 2013 -- International Conference on Computational and Experimental Biomedical Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 63–73

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 (2014) Caiman Tears Quench Thirst of Bee and Butterfly. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/caiman-tears-quench-thirst-bee-and-butterfly/. 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 (2008) Information Technology: Federal Laws, Regulations, and Mandatory Standards to Securing Private Sector Information Technology Systems and Data in Critical Infrastructure Sectors. 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

Ayer EW (2013) An N-gram enhanced learning classifier for Chinese character recognition. 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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy. New York Times C4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chadwick 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chadwick 2006; Boller and He 2009).

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

Two authors: (Boller and He 2009)
Three or more authors: (Gu et al. 2011)

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

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