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

Nelson FE. Geocryology. (Un)frozen in time. Science. 2003;299(5613):1673-1675.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dennis C, Byrne N. Harvesting biotechnology. Nature. 2004;429(6991 Suppl):1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li J, Sato T, Kageyama A. Repeated and sudden reversals of the dipole field generated by a spherical dynamo action. Science. 2002;295(5561):1887-1890.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Langevin Y, Poulet F, Bibring JP, Gondet B. Sulfates in the north polar region of Mars detected by OMEGA/Mars Express. Science. 2005;307(5715):1584-1586.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiBerardinis LJ, Baum JS, First MW, Gatwood GT, Seth AK. Guidelines for Laboratory Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Avison WR, Aneshensel CS, Schieman S, Wheaton B, eds. Advances in the Conceptualization of the Stress Process: Essays in Honor of Leonard I. Pearlin. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen C, Chen J, Lim HW, Zhang Z, Feng D. Combined Public-Key Schemes: The Case of ABE and ABS. In: Takagi T, Wang G, Qin Z, Jiang S, Yu Y, eds. Provable Security: 6th International Conference, ProvSec 2012, Chengdu, China, September 26-28, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2012:53-69.

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. Elon Musk’s Brave New World: It Worked For Henry Ford; Why Not Tesla? 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. Highway Projects: Extent of Unobligated Balances for Demonstration Projects as of March 31, 2002. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Li X. Two Essays on “Mining Market Basket Data: Models and Applications in Marketing.” Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

Loomis G. Carnal Knowledge in a Modern Metropolis: Babylon. New York Times. November 6, 2012:0.

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