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]

Steinberger B. Geophysics. Reconstructing Earth history in three dimensions. Science 2008;322:866–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Artis D, Spits H. The biology of innate lymphoid cells. Nature 2015;517:293–301.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fraser C, Hanage WP, Spratt BG. Recombination and the nature of bacterial speciation. Science 2007;315:476–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Goriely A, McVean GAT, Röjmyr M, Ingemarsson B, Wilkie AOM. Evidence for selective advantage of pathogenic FGFR2 mutations in the male germ line. Science 2003;301:643–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bass F. Guide to the Census. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Soille P, Pesaresi M, Ouzounis GK, editors. Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Image and Signal Processing: 10th International Symposium, ISMM 2011, Verbania-Intra, Italy, July 6-8, 2011. Proceedings. vol. 6671. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Marginson S. Nation-States, Educational Traditions and the WCU Project. In: Shin JC, Kehm BM, editors. Institutionalization of World-Class University in Global Competition, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 59–77.

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.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Could Life On Earth Have Thrived 3.2 Billion Years Ago? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/could-life-earth-have-thrived-32-billion-years-ago/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Aircraft Noise At Memphis International Airport. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gros TR. A templated agarose scaffold for axon guidance in the central and peripheral nervous system. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2009.

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]

Ortved J. Stylish Like a Fox, And Back in the City. New York Times 2017: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	Nutrition
Abbreviation	Nutrition
ISSN (print)	0899-9007
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Nutrition and Dietetics