How to format your references using the LWT - Food Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for LWT - Food Science and Technology. 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

Tromans, A. (2001). Cell biology. Asymmetry in action. Nature, 411(6833), 33.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bromm, V., & Loeb, A. (2003). The formation of the first low-mass stars from gas with low carbon and oxygen abundances. Nature, 425(6960), 812–814.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park, S.-J., Taton, T. A., & Mirkin, C. A. (2002). Array-based electrical detection of DNA with nanoparticle probes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5559), 1503–1506.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zhang, G., Sun, S., Cai, M., Zhang, Y., Li, R., & Sun, X. (2013). Porous dendritic platinum nanotubes with extremely high activity and stability for oxygen reduction reaction. Scientific Reports, 3, 1526.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soustelle, M. (2013). Handbook of Heterogenous Kinetics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Xiang, Y., Pathan, M., Tao, X., & Wang, H. (Eds.). (2012). Internet and Distributed Computing Systems: 5th International Conference, IDCS 2012, Wuyishan, Fujian, China, November 21-23, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7646). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mitchell, B. (2005). Participatory Partnerships: Engaging and Empowering to Enhance Environmental Management and Quality of Life? In D. T. L. Shek, Y. K. Chan, & P. S. N. Lee (Eds.), Quality-of-Life Research in Chinese, Western and Global Contexts (pp. 123–144). Springer Netherlands.

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 LWT - Food Science and Technology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015, November 3). Would You Wear An Engagement Ring Made Out Of Your Fiance’s Wisdom Tooth? IFLScience; 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. (2007). Science and Technology: Information on Federal Programs and Interagency Efforts That Support Small Businesses Engaged in Manufacturing (GAO-07-714). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gomes, S. (2010). The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act and the effects of deinstitutionalization on the mentally ill [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Faludi, S. (2016, October 29). How Hillary Clinton Met Satan. New York Times, SR5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Tromans, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bromm & Loeb, 2003; Tromans, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bromm & Loeb, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	LWT - Food Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Lebenson. Wiss. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0023-6438
Scope	Food Science