How to format your references using the Nutrition and Diabetes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nutrition and Diabetes. 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

Lieberman Aiden E. GE Prize essay. Zoom! Science 2011; 334: 1222–1223.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson JL, Shuttleworth TJ. How many Orai’s does it take to make a CRAC channel? Sci Rep 2013; 3: 1961.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiong Q, Mukherjee S, Furey TS. GSAASeqSP: a toolset for gene set association analysis of RNA-Seq data. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 6347.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Klein EM, Smith DK, Williams CM, Schouten H. Counter-rotating microplates at the Galapagos triple junction. Nature 2005; 433: 855–858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dudbridge M. Handbook of Seal Integrity in the Food Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

Moemeka E. Real World Windows 10 Development. Second Edition. Apress: Berkeley, CA, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Boyer L, Cassagnes L, Vernhet H, Garcier J-M, Chabrot P. Massive Hemoptysis: Radiological Management. In: Chabrot P, Boyer L (eds). Embolization. Springer: London, 2014, pp 63–77.

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 Nutrition and Diabetes.

Blog post

Andrew E. Jumbled Arrangement Of Atoms Allows Bulk Metallic Glasses To Flow Like Honey. IFLScience. 2015.

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. Observations on Management of Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robinson DE. How personality traits and job satisfaction influence service quality in housing agencies. 2010.

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

Gustines GG. Brooklyn Gets a Superhero (and a Few Villains). New York Times. 2016; : MB4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Nutrition and Diabetes
Abbreviation	Nutr. Diabetes
ISSN (online)	2044-4052
Scope