How to format your references using the Journal of Medicinal Food citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Medicinal Food (JMF). 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

Dalton R. Misconduct: the stars who fell to earth. Nature 2002;420(6917):728–729.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rodell CB, Burdick JA. Materials science: Radicals promote magnetic gel assembly. Nature 2014;514(7524):574–575.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen W, Shimada S, Tanaka M. Synthesis and structure of formally hexavalent palladium complexes. Science 2002;295(5553):308–310.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang D, Peng S, Hartman MR, et al. Enhanced transcription and translation in clay hydrogel and implications for early life evolution. Sci Rep 2013;3:3165.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith MC, Sherman DM. Goat Medicine. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK; 2009.

An edited book

Fritsche-Neto R, Borém A, (eds). Plant Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Dransfield I, Farnworth S. Axl and Mer Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: Distinct and Nonoverlapping Roles in Inflammation and Cancer? In: Apoptosis in Cancer Pathogenesis and Anti-Cancer Therapy: New Perspectives and Opportunities. (Gregory CD. ed). Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2016; pp. 113–132.

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 Medicinal Food.

Blog post

Hale T. Stunning Footage Of Three Whales “Dancing” Around A Boat. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/stunning-footage-of-three-whales-dancing-around-a-boat/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Commercial Aviation: Issues Regarding Federal Assistance for Enhancing Air Service to Small Communities. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nattress DA. Benefits of Single-Gender Education: Perceptions of Middle Grade Teachers. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University: Minneapolis, MN; 2013.

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

Kelly C. Living With the Sweet Smell of Sap. New York Times 2011;C25.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Medicinal Food
ISSN (print)	1096-620X
ISSN (online)	1557-7600
Scope