How to format your references using the Journal of Functional Foods citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Functional Foods. 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

Mann, C. C. (2007). Archaeology. Mystery towers in Peru are an ancient solar calendar. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5816), 1206–1207.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, B. C., & Melosh, H. J. (2012). Impact spherules as a record of an ancient heavy bombardment of Earth. Nature, 485(7396), 75–77.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maier, T., Jenni, S., & Ban, N. (2006). Architecture of mammalian fatty acid synthase at 4.5 A resolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5765), 1258–1262.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Tao, T., Wang, L., Fan, C., & Gao, W. (2014). Development of self-control in children aged 3 to 9 years: perspective from a dual-systems model. Scientific Reports, 4, 7272.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chiasson, A. D. (2016). Geothermal Heat Pump and Heat Engine Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Métais, E., Meziane, F., Saraee, M., Sugumaran, V., & Vadera, S. (Eds.). (2013). Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 18th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2013, Salford, UK, June 19-21, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 7934). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Utama, N. A., Ishihara, K. N., Zhang, Q., & Tezuka, T. (2011). 2050 ASEAN Electricity Demand: Case Study in Indonesia and Cambodia. In T. Yao (Ed.), Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2010: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Global COE Program “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System” (pp. 32–39). Springer Japan.

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 Functional Foods.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 3). Scientists Engineer Bacteria To Produce A Renewable Biofuel. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-engineer-bacteria-produce-renewable-biofuel/

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. (2007). Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities Exposed Through Covert Testing of TSA’s Passenger Screening Process (GAO-08-48T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Escobedo, K. (2017). Sana Mente Center [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

Maheshwari, S., & Herrman, J. (2016, October 30). Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mann, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Johnson & Melosh, 2012; Mann, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Johnson & Melosh, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Tao et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Functional Foods
Abbreviation	J. Funct. Foods
ISSN (print)	1756-4646
Scope	Food Science Medicine (miscellaneous) Nutrition and Dietetics