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

Bordignon, C. (2006). Stem-cell therapies for blood diseases. Nature, 441(7097), 1100–1102.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burns, J. A., & Cuzzi, J. N. (2006). Planetary science. Our local astrophysical laboratory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5781), 1753–1755.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rust, M. J., Golden, S. S., & O’Shea, E. K. (2011). Light-driven changes in energy metabolism directly entrain the cyanobacterial circadian oscillator. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6014), 220–223.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Petford, N., Cruden, A. R., McCaffrey, K. J., & Vigneresse, J. L. (2000). Granite magma formation, transport and emplacement in the Earth’s crust. Nature, 408(6813), 669–673.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Papadimitriou, G. I., Tsimoulas, P. A., Obaidat, M. S., & Pomportsis, A. S. (2005). Multiwavelength Optical LANs. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wang, X., Wang, F., & Zhong, S. (Eds.). (2012). Electrical, Information Engineering and Mechatronics 2011: Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Electrical, Information Engineering and Mechatronics (EIEM 2011) (Vol. 138). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Härdle, W. K., & Simar, L. (2015). Multivariate Distributions. In L. Simar (Ed.), Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis (pp. 117–181). 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, May 11). A Mother Monkey Appears To Wail And Cradle Its Collapsed Child. 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. (1977). House of Representatives’ Amendment to the Energy Research and Development Administration’s Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 1978 (EMD-77-73). 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

Smith, C. (2013). The affect of acculturation on obesity among foreign-born Asians residing in the United States [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

Saslow, L. (2007, June 17). Nassau Working to Close Gap in 2008 Budget. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bordignon, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bordignon, 2006; Burns & Cuzzi, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Burns & Cuzzi, 2006)
Three authors: (Rust et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Petford et al., 2000)

About the journal

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

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