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

Short RV. Where do babies come from? Nature. 2000;403(6771):705.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buyx A, Tait J. Ethics. Ethical framework for biofuels. Science. 2011;332(6029):540-541.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshino T, Walter MJ, Katsura T. Core formation in planetesimals triggered by permeable flow. Nature. 2003;422(6928):154-157.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhou Y, O’Connell R, Maguire P, Zhang H. High throughput secondary electron imaging of organic residues on a graphene surface. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7032.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Storhas W. Bioverfahrensentwicklung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Fritsche-Neto R, Borém A, eds. Phenomics: How Next-Generation Phenotyping Is Revolutionizing Plant Breeding. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Wagner LO, Yang ZH, Burke K. Exact Conditions and Their Relevance in TDDFT. In: Marques MAL, Maitra NT, Nogueira FMS, Gross EKU, Rubio A, eds. Fundamentals of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer; 2012:101-123.

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. The Hunt: A Natural History Series That Challenges Us To Side With The Predators. IFLScience.

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. Attack Warning: Lack of System Architecture Contributes to Major Development Problems. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sandoval V. Preventing Chronic Truancy among Latino High School Students: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Barron J. A Rural Retreat for New York City’s Angels and Gargoyles. New York Times. May 5, 2017:A17.

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