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

Butler D. Bioinformatics to be nurtured online. Nature 411:513 (2001).

A journal article with 2 authors

Mondal N and Parvin JD. DNA topoisomerase IIalpha is required for RNA polymerase II transcription on chromatin templates. Nature 413:435–438 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Nemoto S, Fergusson MM, and Finkel T. Nutrient availability regulates SIRT1 through a forkhead-dependent pathway. Science 306:2105–2108 (2004).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang C, Liu L, Cui X, Zheng L, Deng Y, and Shi F. Chlorine as an indicator in the controllable preparation of active nano-gold catalyst. Sci Rep 3:1503 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dunnivant FM. Environmental Laboratory Exercises for Instrumental Analysis and Environmental Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

Onieva JA, Sauveron D, Chaumette S, Gollmann D, and Markantonakis K (eds.). Information Security Theory and Practices. Smart Devices, Convergence and Next Generation Networks: Second IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop, WISTP 2008, Seville, Spain, May 13-16, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Bornstein R, Styrbicki-Imamura R, González JE, and Lebassi B. Interactions of Global-Warming and Urban Heat Islands in Different Climate-Zones. In: Fernando HJS, Klaić Z, McCulley JL, eds. National Security and Human Health Implications of Climate Change Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; p. 49–60 2012.

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

Andrew D. Top 10 Insane Unexplained Scientific Discoveries. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/top-10-insane-unexplained-scientific-discoveries/ [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. Immigrant Education: Federal Funding Has Not Kept Pace With Student Increases. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 AprReport No.: T-HEHS-94-146.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gan K. A Parity-Violating Spin Rotation Measurement of Transversely Polarized Cold Neutrons Through a Liquid Helium Target [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2011.

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

Wagner J. Syndergaard Rethinks Training: Fewer Weights, More Flexibility. New York Times :SP8 (2017).

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