How to format your references using the Journal of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Murphy DM. Atmospheric science. Something in the air. Science. 2005 Mar;307(5717):1888–90.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Harvey CD, Svoboda K. Locally dynamic synaptic learning rules in pyramidal neuron dendrites. Nature. 2007 Dec;450(7173):1195–200.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Shatzkes K, Teferedegne B, Murata H. A simple, inexpensive method for preparing cell lysates suitable for downstream reverse transcription quantitative PCR. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr;4:4659.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Reddy KL, Zullo JM, Bertolino E, Singh H. Transcriptional repression mediated by repositioning of genes to the nuclear lamina. Nature. 2008 Mar;452(7184):243–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Homer S, Leibowitz ML. Inside the Yield Book. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.
An edited book
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Mattassi R, Loose DA, Vaghi M, editors. Hemangiomas and Vascular Malformations: An Atlas of Diagnosis and Treatment. Milano: Springer; 2009.
A chapter in an edited book
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Castillo E, Fernández-Canteli A. Log-Weibull ε-N Model. In: Fernández-Canteli A, editor. A Unified Statistical Methodology for Modeling Fatigue Damage. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009; pp 113–25.

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 Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics.

Blog post
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Davis J. How Predictive Are Climate Models? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-predictive-are-climate-models/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Coordination of Government Research and Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Harvey J. Predicting Cost-Inflicting Mate Retention Tactic Use in Women with Borderline Personality Features: Examining the Roles of Maladaptive Schemas and Reactive Aggression. 2017

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
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Billard M. Out of Character, but in His Element. New York Times. 2013 Oct;E7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 titleJournal of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics
AbbreviationJ. Nutrigenet. Nutrigenomics
ISSN (print)1661-6499
ISSN (online)1661-6758
ScopeFood Science
Genetics
Medicine (miscellaneous)

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