How to format your references using the Nutrition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nutrition. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Lawler A. SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION: A More Cautious NASA Sets Plans for Mars. Science 2000;290:915a–6a.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rosenberg SM, Queitsch C. Medicine. Combating evolution to fight disease. Science 2014;343:1088–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zaks B, Liu RB, Sherwin MS. Experimental observation of electron-hole recollisions. Nature 2012;483:580–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kondo T, Sawa S, Kinoshita A, Mizuno S, Kakimoto T, Fukuda H, et al. A plant peptide encoded by CLV3 identified by in situ MALDI-TOF MS analysis. Science 2006;313:845–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Remy J-G, Letamendia C. LTE Standards. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Pohl K. Software Product Line Engineering: Foundations, Principles, and Techniques. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wood RE. Bronchoscopy in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. In: Wheeler DS, Wong HR, Shanley TP, editors. The Respiratory Tract in Pediatric Critical Illness and Injury, London: Springer; 2009, p. 1–5.

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.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. How Time-Poor Scientists Inadvertently Made It Seem Like The World Was Overrun With Jellyfish. IFLScience 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Space-Based Lasers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Stadalis MD. Development of a Conceptual Model and Instrument for Sustaining Successful School Reculturing and Reform Efforts. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 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

[1]

Wagner J. Houston’s Bregman Works on Hitting, Fielding and Spanish. New York Times 2017:SP2.

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	Nutrition
Abbreviation	Nutrition
ISSN (print)	0899-9007
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Nutrition and Dietetics