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

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

Ray A. Plant genetics: RNA cache or genome trash? Nature. 2005;437(7055):E1-2; discussion E2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tercero JA, Diffley JF. Regulation of DNA replication fork progression through damaged DNA by the Mec1/Rad53 checkpoint. Nature. 2001;412(6846):553-557.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chien KR, Moretti A, Laugwitz KL. Development. ES cells to the rescue. Science. 2004;306(5694):239-240.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Parsons J, Altmann F, Graf M, Stadlmann J, Reski R, Decker EL. A gene responsible for prolyl-hydroxylation of moss-produced recombinant human erythropoietin. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3019.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wahbi M. Algorithms and Ordering Heuristics for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Böhm C, Khuri S, Lhotská L, Renda ME, eds. Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics: Third International Conference, ITBAM 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 4-5, 2012. Proceedings. Vol 7451. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Emady H, Hapgood K, Smith R. Granulation and Tabletting. In: Merkus HG, Meesters GMH, eds. Production, Handling and Characterization of Particulate Materials. Particle Technology Series. Springer International Publishing; 2016:107-136.

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 Education and Behavior.

Blog post

Andrew E. Superpod Of More Than 1,000 Dolphins Spotted Off The Coast Of California. IFLScience. Published May 21, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/superpod-over-1000-seen-coast-california/

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. Information Security: Progress Made, but Federal Aviation Administration Needs to Improve Controls over Air Traffic Control Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Selph CS. Origins of Music Programs in Liberal Arts Institutions: The Story of Three Florida Catholic Universities. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 2015.

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

Swenson J. New Orleans Celebrates Fats Domino. New York Times. October 26, 2017:C1.

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 Nutrition Education and Behavior
Abbreviation	J. Nutr. Educ. Behav.
ISSN (print)	1499-4046
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Nutrition and Dietetics