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

Ehrsson HH. The experimental induction of out-of-body experiences. Science. 2007;317(5841):1048.

A journal article with 2 authors

Showalter MR, Hamilton DP. Resonant interactions and chaotic rotation of Pluto’s small moons. Nature. 2015;522(7554):45-49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lü L, Zhang ZK, Zhou T. Deviation of Zipf’s and Heaps’ Laws in human languages with limited dictionary sizes. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1082.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Girardi M, Oppenheim DE, Steele CR, et al. Regulation of cutaneous malignancy by gammadelta T cells. Science. 2001;294(5542):605-609.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shanmugam R, Chattamvelli R. Statistics for Scientists and Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Hurst CJ, ed. Their World: A Diversity of Microbial Environments. Vol 1. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Asiki A, Tsoumakos D, Koziris N. A DHT-Based System for the Management of Loosely Structured, Multidimensional Data. In: Hameurlain A, Küng J, Wagner R, Liddle SW, Schewe KD, Zhou X, eds. Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems VI: Special Issue on Database- and Expert-Systems Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2012:134-166.

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

O`Callaghan J. New Horizons Returns Stunning Image Of Charon That Includes A “Mountain In A Moat.” 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. Biotechnology: Information on Prices of Genetically Modified Seeds in the United States and Argentina. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Obeng-Dompreh S. The Impact of Servicemembers’ Learning Styles and Computer Anxiety Levels on Computer -Mediated Learning. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 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

Vecsey G. Reason to Believe But Also To Be Cautious. New York Times. December 5, 2009:D1.

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