How to format your references using the Journal of Nutrition citation style

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

Watson A. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY: New Science Chief Must Juggle Missions and Politics. Science 2000;290:1287a–8a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wade J, Wood BJ. The Earth’s “missing” niobium may be in the core. Nature 2001;409:75–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Froemke RC, Poo M-M, Dan Y. Spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity depends on dendritic location. Nature 2005;434:221–5.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Diddams SA, Bergquist JC, Jefferts SR, Oates CW. Standards of time and frequency at the outset of the 21st century. Science 2004;306:1318–24.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rossi RJ. Theorems, Corollaries, Lemmas, and Methods of Proof. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Kuhlin B, Thielmann H, editors. The Practical Real-Time Enterprise: Facts and Perspectives. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. XIV, 560 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Stillman MJ, Kriegler JS, Covington EC, Krause SJ. Diagnosis of Addiction, Substance Use, and Headache. In: Tepper SJ, Tepper DE, editors. The Cleveland Clinic Manual of Headache Therapy: Second Edition. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 63–76.

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 Nutrition.

Blog post

Andrews R. 1.85-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Triggered Massive Volcanic Eruptions [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/185billionyearold-meteorite-impact-triggered-massive-volcanic-eruptions/

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. Export Controls: NASA Management Action and Improved Oversight Needed to Reduce the Risk of Unauthorized Access to Its Technologies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Jun. Report No.: GAO-14-690T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Platt JB. Feast in the time of terror: Stalinist temporal paradox and the 1937 Pushkin Jubilee [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2008.

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

Hodara S. Leadership on View in ‘ArtWalk’ Near West Point. New York Times. 2015;WE9.

In-text citations

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

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 Nutrition
Abbreviation	J. Nutr.
ISSN (print)	0022-3166
ISSN (online)	1541-6100
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Nutrition and Dietetics