How to format your references using the Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Eisenstein M (2011) Genetics: finding risk factors. Nature 475:S20-2

A journal article with 2 authors

Gautel M, Ehler E (2010) Cell biology. Gett’N-WASP stripes. Science 330:1491–1492

A journal article with 3 authors

Andrews MR, Mitra PP, deCarvalho R (2001) Tripling the capacity of wireless communications using electromagnetic polarization. Nature 409:316–318

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gorb SN, Niederegger S, Hayashi CY, et al (2006) Biomaterials: silk-like secretion from tarantula feet. Nature 443:407

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hogg RM, Fulk RD (2011) A Grammar of Old English. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Toebes B, Ferguson R, Markovic MM, Nnamuchi O (2014) The Right to Health: A Multi-Country Study of Law, Policy and Practice. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague

A chapter in an edited book

Martínez-Lage JF, Pérez-Espejo MA, Turgut AT (2015) Iatrogenic Complications of CSF Shunting. In: Di Rocco C, Turgut M, Jallo G, Martínez-Lage JF (eds) Complications of CSF Shunting in Hydrocephalus: Prevention, Identification, and Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 81–107

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 Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Folding Graphene Like Origami May Allow Us To Wear Sensors In Our Skin. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/folding-graphene-origami-may-allow-us-wear-sensors-our-skin-0/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1994) USDA Restructuring: Refocus Info Share Program on Business Processes Rather Than Technology. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Warner T (2015) California Assembly Bill 2404 Fair Play in Community Sports Act compliance procedures manual. 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

Walsh MW (2015) Puerto Rico Development Bank Goes to Court for $400 Million in Taxes. New York Times B5

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism
Abbreviation	Med. J. Nutrition Metab.
ISSN (print)	1973-798X
ISSN (online)	1973-7998
Scope	Food Science Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Nutrition and Dietetics