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

McQuate, G.T. Green Light Synergistally Enhances Male Sweetpotato Weevil Response to Sex Pheromone. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4499.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ricklefs, R.E.; Outlaw, D.C. A Molecular Clock for Malaria Parasites. Science 2010, 329, 226–229.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sund, J.; Andér, M.; Aqvist, J. Principles of Stop-Codon Reading on the Ribosome. Nature 2010, 465, 947–950.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Perfeito, L.; Fernandes, L.; Mota, C.; Gordo, I. Adaptive Mutations in Bacteria: High Rate and Small Effects. Science 2007, 317, 813–815.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hu, J.C. Asset Securitization; John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.: 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809, 2011; ISBN 9781118390481.

An edited book

Goldade, V.A. Plastics for Corrosion Inhibition; Pinchuk, L.S., Makarevich, A.V., Kestelman, V.N., Eds.; Springer Series in Materials Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; Vol. 82; ISBN 9783540238492.

A chapter in an edited book

Hellman, D. An Epistemic Defense of Precedent. In Precedent in the United States Supreme Court; Peters, C.J., Ed.; Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013; pp. 63–76 ISBN 9789400779501.

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. Early Scorpions May Have Transitioned To Land Earlier Than Thought Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/early-scorpions-may-have-transitioned-land-earlier-thought/ (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 FAA Staffing: Air Traffic Controllers’ Work Load and Operational Performance; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1987;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tillman, K.A. Constructing the Concept of Time: Roles of Perception, Language, and Culture. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego: La Jolla, 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

Johnson, G. An Apple a Day, and Other Myths. New York Times 2014, D3.

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