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

Pillarisetty R. Academic and industry research progress in germanium nanodevices. Nature. 2011;479(7373):324-328.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Ginneken VJ, van den Thillart GE. Eel fat stores are enough to reach the Sargasso. Nature. 2000;403(6766):156-157.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen G, Zhuchenko O, Kuspa A. Immune-like phagocyte activity in the social amoeba. Science. 2007;317(5838):678-681.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Marson A, Kretschmer K, Frampton GM, et al. Foxp3 occupancy and regulation of key target genes during T-cell stimulation. Nature. 2007;445(7130):931-935.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krause TR. Leading with Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Kim TH, Chang ACC, Li M, Rong C, Patrikakis CZ, Ślęzak D, eds. Communication and Networking: International Conference, FGCN 2010, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2010, Jeju Island, Korea, December 13-15, 2010. Proceedings, Part I. Vol 119. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Lei H, Karniadakis GE. Multiscale Modeling of Sickle Cell Anemia. In: Quarteroni A, ed. Modeling the Heart and the Circulatory System. MS&A. Springer International Publishing; 2015:119-156.

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

Hale T. NASA Is Hiring Astronauts, And You Could Apply. IFLScience. Published November 5, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/you-could-be-one-nasas-next-astronauts/

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. Federal Aviation Administration: Financial Management Issues. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Conill AL. Dosimetric Consequences of the Parotid Glands Using CT-to-CBCT Deformable Registration during IMRT for Late Stage Head and Neck Cancers. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University; 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

Gordon MR. In Mosul’s Endgame, Escape Proves Harrowing and Surrender Unlikely. New York Times. July 6, 2017:A4.

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

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