How to format your references using the Nutrients citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nutrients. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Moore, D.D. Physiology. Crise de Foie, Redux? Science 2011, 331, 1275–1276.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taberlet, P.; Cheddadi, R. Ecology. Quaternary Refugia and Persistence of Biodiversity. Science 2002, 297, 2009–2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nilewski, C.; Geisser, R.W.; Carreira, E.M. Total Synthesis of a Chlorosulpholipid Cytotoxin Associated with Seafood Poisoning. Nature 2009, 457, 573–576.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ebert, A.D.; Yu, J.; Rose, F.F., Jr; Mattis, V.B.; Lorson, C.L.; Thomson, J.A.; Svendsen, C.N. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from a Spinal Muscular Atrophy Patient. Nature 2009, 457, 277–280.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bayés de Luna, A. Clinical Arrhythmology; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2011; ISBN 9781444391749.

An edited book

Atlas of Musculoskeletal Tumors and Tumorlike Lesions: The Rizzoli Case Archive; Picci, P., Manfrini, M., Fabbri, N., Gambarotti, M., Vanel, D., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; ISBN 9783319017471.

A chapter in an edited book

Najnudel, J.; Nikeghbali, A. A Remarkable σ-Finite Measure Associated with Last Passage Times and Penalisation Problems. In Contemporary Quantitative Finance: Essays in Honour of Eckhard Platen; Chiarella, C., Novikov, A., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp. 77–97 ISBN 9783642034787.

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 Nutrients.

Blog post

Taub, B. A Monkey Has Survived For A Record Period Of Time With A Pig’s Heart Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/monkey-survived-record-period-time-pigs-heart/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Indian Education in the Public School System Needs More Direction from the Congress; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1977;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Seyed Jalali Aghdam, S.M. Silica Aerogel, an Alternative to Micromachined Air Gap for Thermal Insulation of Microheaters. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 2015.

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

Baker, P.; Shear, M.D. Trump Stirs a New Question: Are There Tapes? New York Times 2017, A1.

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	Nutrients
Abbreviation	Nutrients
ISSN (online)	2072-6643
Scope	Food Science