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]

Bürgmann R. GEOPHYSICS. Weak subduction makes great quakes. Science 2015;349:1162–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lemons D, McGinnis W. Genomic evolution of Hox gene clusters. Science 2006;313:1918–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Li J, Sato T, Kageyama A. Repeated and sudden reversals of the dipole field generated by a spherical dynamo action. Science 2002;295:1887–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Argyris A, Syvridis D, Larger L, Annovazzi-Lodi V, Colet P, Fischer I, et al. Chaos-based communications at high bit rates using commercial fibre-optic links. Nature 2005;438:343–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Meyr H, Moeneclaey M, Fechtel SA. Digital Communication Receivers: Synchronization, Channel Estimation, and Signal Processing. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2001.

An edited book

[1]

Schmidt W, editor. S-BPM ONE - Learning by Doing - Doing by Learning: Third International Conference, S-BPM ONE 2011, Ingolstadt, Germany, September 29-30, 2011. Proceedings. vol. 213. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tsao Y-S, Merchant AA, Meyer A, Liu Z, Smith M, Levitan D, et al. Integrated Pathway Analysis of Genome-Wide Expression Changes Associated with Serum-Free Suspension Adaptation of an Antibody-Producing Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cell Line. In: Kamihira M, Katakura Y, Ito A, editors. Animal Cell Technology: Basic & Applied Aspects: Proceedings of the 21st Annual and International Meeting of the Japanese Association for Animal Cell Technology (JAACT), Fukuoka, Japan, November 24-27, 2008, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010, p. 27–32.

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]

Hale T. Watch A 24/7 Live Steam Of A Bear Haven In Alaska. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-a-247-live-steam-of-a-bear-haven-in-alaska-/ (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. Household Goods Transport. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hoffmann M. An exploratory study: Mobile device use for academics. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 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]

Casey N, MacKENNA E. Doomed Jet’s Pilot Said to Have Reported ‘Fuel Emergency.’ New York Times 2016:A10.

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

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