How to format your references using the Meat Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Meat Science. 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

Ejeta, G. (2010). African Green Revolution needn’t be a mirage. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5967), 831–832.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morata, G., & Struhl, G. (2014). Developmental biology: Tethered wings. Nature, 505(7482), 162–163.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martinón-Torres, M., Rehren, T., & Freestone, I. C. (2006). Mullite and the mystery of Hessian wares. Nature, 444(7118), 437–438.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jin, S., Li, Y., Pan, R., & Zou, X. (2014). Characterizing and controlling the inflammatory network during influenza A virus infection. Scientific Reports, 4, 3799.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zheng, Y., Xu, X., Xu, Z., Wang, J., & Cai, H. (2017). Metallic Biomaterials. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Misra, S., Gavrilova, M. L., Rocha, A. M. A. C., Torre, C., Taniar, D., & Apduhan, B. O. (Eds.). (2015). Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015: 15th International Conference, Banff, AB, Canada, June 22-25, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 9156). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Zipser, M. C., & Dummer, R. (2011). Epidemiology of Histocytoses. In R. Dummer, M. R. Pittelkow, K. Iwatsuki, A. Green, & N. M. Elwan (Eds.), Skin Cancer - A World-Wide Perspective (pp. 33–34). Springer.

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 Meat Science.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, January 19). New Footage Shows A Wild Orangutan Using A Saw To Cut A Tree In Half. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-footage-shows-a-wild-orangutan-using-a-saw-to-cut-a-tree-in-half/

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. (1977). Mission Budgeting: Discussion and Illustration of the Concept in Research and Development Programs (PSAD-77-124). 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

Pulido, M. D. (2017). Self-Reported Emotional State as a Measure of Interpersonal Vulnerability [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

(nyt), S. K. (2004, December 3). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Rail Link To Georgian Region Is Shut. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ejeta, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ejeta, 2010; Morata & Struhl, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Morata & Struhl, 2014)
Three authors: (Martinón-Torres et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Jin et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Meat Science
Abbreviation	Meat Sci.
ISSN (print)	0309-1740
Scope	Food Science