How to format your references using the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture (JSFA). 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

Bouwmeester D. Quantum mechanics. The quantum nondemolition derby. Science 344:1224–1226 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Renear AH and Palmer CL. Strategic reading, ontologies, and the future of scientific publishing. Science 325:828–832 (2009).

A journal article with 3 authors

Harbaugh WT, Mayr U, and Burghart DR. Neural responses to taxation and voluntary giving reveal motives for charitable donations. Science 316:1622–1625 (2007).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bellott DW, Skaletsky H, Pyntikova T, Mardis ER, Graves T, Kremitzki C, Brown LG, Rozen S, Warren WC, Wilson RK, and Page DC. Convergent evolution of chicken Z and human X chromosomes by expansion and gene acquisition. Nature 466:612–616 (2010).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Godula-Jopek A, Jehle W, and Wellnitz J. Hydrogen Storage Technologies. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Lévy PP, Grand BL, Poulet F, Soto M, Darago L, Toubiana L, and Vibert J-F (eds.). Pixelization Paradigm: First Visual Information Expert Workshop, VIEW 2006, Paris, France, April 24-25, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Naunheimer H, Bertsche B, Ryborz J, and Novak W. Matching Engine and Transmission. In: Bertsche B, Ryborz J, Novak W, eds. Automotive Transmissions: Fundamentals, Selection, Design and Application Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 115–139 2011.

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 Science of Food and Agriculture.

Blog post

Taub B. Vitamin Found To Halt Aging In Muscle Tissues And Increase Lifespan. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/awesome-vitamin-found-halt-aging-muscle-tissues/ [30 October 2018].

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 Contracting: Disadvantaged Business Program Meets Contract Goal, but Refinements Are Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 AugReport No.: RCED-94-168.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harris AE. A quantitative study of the impact of CFO and auditor turnover on internal control weaknesses [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2017.

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

Vecsey G. Bond Between Generations, With Football On the Side. New York Times :SP1 (2010).

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 Science of Food and Agriculture
ISSN (print)	0022-5142
ISSN (online)	1097-0010
Scope