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

Deroy O. Eat insects for fun, not to help the environment. Nature. 2015;521(7553):395.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ives AR, Whitlock MC. Ecology. Inbreeding and metapopulations. Science. 2002;295(5554):454-455.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou T, Wang T, Garcia JGN. Expression of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase-influenced genes predicts recurrence-free survival in lung and breast cancers. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6107.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yu WK, Liu XF, Yao XR, Wang C, Zhai Y, Zhai GJ. Complementary compressive imaging for the telescopic system. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5834.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edmonds ME, Foster AVM, Sanders LJ. A Practical Manual of Diabetic Foot Care. Blackwell Publishing; 2008.

An edited book

Deer TR, Pope JE, eds. Atlas of Implantable Therapies for Pain Management. 2nd ed. 2016. Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Wilcock N, Scholz C. Overcoming Underdevelopment. In: Scholz C, ed. Hartmut Elsenhans and a Critique of Capitalism: Conversations on Theory and Policy Implications. Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016:40-56.

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

Hamilton K. Sleep Deprivation Makes The Brain Go Into Overdrive And “Eat Itself’. IFLScience. May 26, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/sleep-deprivation-makes-the-brain-go-into-overdrive-and-eat-itself/

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. Small Business Research Programs: Agencies Did Not Consistently Comply with Spending and Reporting Requirements. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bowles A. The Development of a Standard of Care for Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 2012.

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

Rojas R, Fitzsimmons EG. Crane Collapse Kills Man on Busy Manhattan Block. New York Times. February 5, 2016:A16.

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