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

Whyard S. Plant science. Insecticidal RNA, the long and short of it. Science. 2015;347(6225):950-951.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kind R, Yuan X. Geophysics. Seismic images of the biggest crash on Earth. Science. 2010;329(5998):1479-1480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nakada D, Saunders TL, Morrison SJ. Lkb1 regulates cell cycle and energy metabolism in haematopoietic stem cells. Nature. 2010;468(7324):653-658.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Flematti GR, Ghisalberti EL, Dixon KW, Trengove RD. A compound from smoke that promotes seed germination. Science. 2004;305(5686):977.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Parker JS, Anderson RL. Low-Energy Lunar Trajectory Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Peschek GA, Obinger C, Renger G, eds. Bioenergetic Processes of Cyanobacteria: From Evolutionary Singularity to Ecological Diversity. Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Menon AGK. Between the Colonial, the Global, and the Local—Civilizing India’s Past under Different Regimes. In: Falser M, ed. Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission: From Decay to Recovery. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Springer International Publishing; 2015:67-82.

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 D. 21 Easter Eggs Hidden Within Your Google Search Bar. 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. Electronic Government: Potential Exists for Enhancing Collaboration on Four Initiatives. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

O’Connell M. Escaping Intersections. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2010.

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

Billard M. Both Sides of the Border. New York Times. July 29, 2010:E5.

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