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 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

Klug, A. Structural Biology. A Marvellous Machine for Making Messages. Science 2001, 292, 1844–1846.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joly, P.-B.; Rip, A. A Timely Harvest. Nature 2007, 450, 174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keenan, S.W.; Engel, A.S.; Elsey, R.M. The Alligator Gut Microbiome and Implications for Archosaur Symbioses. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2877.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, M.; Katz, H.E.; Erben, C.; Gill, D.M.; Gopalan, P.; Heber, J.D.; McGee, D.J. Broadband Modulation of Light by Using an Electro-Optic Polymer. Science 2002, 298, 1401–1403.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quéguiner, B. The Biogeochemical Cycle of Silicon in the Ocean; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016; ISBN 9781119136880.

An edited book

Threats to the Quality of Groundwater Resources: Prevention and Control; Scozzari, A., Dotsika, E., Eds.; The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016; Vol. 40; ISBN 9783662485941.

A chapter in an edited book

Costa, R.; Gomes, D. Centrifugation – Separating Cream from Milkcentrifugation - Separating Cream from Milk. In Experiments in Unit Operations and Processing of Foods; Vieira, M., Ho, P., Eds.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2008; pp. 35–39 ISBN 9780387335131.

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

Andrew, E. Sea-Level Rise Has Claimed Five Whole Islands In The Pacific: First Scientific Evidence (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 K-12 Education: School-Based Physical Education and Sports Programs; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2012;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Berkow, K. Importance of Effective Leadership for the Success of Mergers and Acquisitions. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA, 2017.

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

Almosawa, S.; Hubbard, B. Saudi-Led Airstrikes Blamed for Massacre of Scores of Yemeni Mourners. New York Times 2016, A14.

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