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

Schwartz JH (2004) Anthropology. Getting to know Homo erectus. Science 305:53–54

A journal article with 2 authors

Spanò S, Galán JE (2012) A Rab32-dependent pathway contributes to Salmonella typhi host restriction. Science 338:960–963

A journal article with 3 authors

Bajcsy M, Zibrov AS, Lukin MD (2003) Stationary pulses of light in an atomic medium. Nature 426:638–641

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lamers MH, Perrakis A, Enzlin JH, et al (2000) The crystal structure of DNA mismatch repair protein MutS binding to a G x T mismatch. Nature 407:711–717

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krasner D (2011) A History of Modern Drama. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Klein S (2012) Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure: SQL Server in the Cloud, Second Edition. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Webster RG, Webby RJ, Perdue M (2011) The Origin and Evolution of H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Viruses. In: Rappuoli R, Del Giudice G (eds) Influenza Vaccines for the Future. Springer, Basel, pp 77–93

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

Luntz S (2016) Sex Cells Exist To Protect Mitochondria From Mutation. In: IFLScience. 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 (1998) Information Technology Workers: Employment and Starting Salaries. 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

Catalini M (2012) Intrinsic rewards increase job performance within an organization. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Stewart JB (2016) Trump Puts Barometers of Wall St. to the Test. New York Times B1

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

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