How to format your references using the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics citation style

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

Sunda WG. Oceans. Iron and the carbon pump. Science. 2010;327(5966):654-655.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nodine MD, Bartel DP. Maternal and paternal genomes contribute equally to the transcriptome of early plant embryos. Nature. 2012;482(7383):94-97.

A journal article with 3 authors

Turner GC, Du F, Varshavsky A. Peptides accelerate their uptake by activating a ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathway. Nature. 2000;405(6786):579-583.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Siwick BJ, Dwyer JR, Jordan RE, Miller RJD. An atomic-level view of melting using femtosecond electron diffraction. Science. 2003;302(5649):1382-1385.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cobb K. The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture. Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Mahlich J, Pascha W, eds. Korean Science and Technology in an International Perspective. Physica-Verlag HD; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Tschachler E, Tiplica GS. Venereal Disease I: Syphilis. In: Ólafsson JH, Hay RJ, eds. Antibiotic and Antifungal Therapies in Dermatology. Springer International Publishing; 2016:57-68.

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 the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Blog post

Andrew E. Is Your Red The Same As My Red? IFLScience. August 12, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/your-red-same-my-red/

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. Public Transportation: Washington Metro Could Benefit from Clarified Board Roles and Responsibilities, Improved Strategic Planning. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sparks GA. Charismatic Leadership: An Exploratory Investigation of the Techniques of Influence. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 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

Kishkovsky S. Russia: Jehovah’s Witness Acquitted of Incitement. New York Times. April 15, 2011:A11.

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 the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Abbreviation	J. Acad. Nutr. Diet.
ISSN (print)	2212-2672
Scope	Food Science General Medicine Nutrition and Dietetics