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]

Orr FM Jr. Onshore geologic storage of CO2. Science 2009;325:1656–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lecuit T, Le Goff L. Orchestrating size and shape during morphogenesis. Nature 2007;450:189–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Barsh GS, Farooqi IS, O’Rahilly S. Genetics of body-weight regulation. Nature 2000;404:644–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ram RJ, Verberkmoes NC, Thelen MP, Tyson GW, Baker BJ, Blake RC 2nd, et al. Community proteomics of a natural microbial biofilm. Science 2005;308:1915–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nicholls DL, Piergrossi JC, Gibertoni C de S, Daniel MA. Psychoanalytic Thinking in Occupational Therapy. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Andersen ML, Tufik S, editors. Rodent Model as Tools in Ethical Biomedical Research. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Frowein JA. Comment: State Responsibility and Peace. In: Nolte G, editor. Peace through International Law: The Role of the International Law Commission. A Colloquium at the Occasion of its Sixtieth Anniversary, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 47–51.

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. Why is the Universe Accelerating? 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Motor Carrier Safety: Additional Research Standards and Truck Drivers’ Schedule Data Could Allow More Accurate Assessments of the Hours of Service Rule. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Beasley CA. Investigations of redox-labeled silica and gold nanoparticles in solution and as films on electrodes. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 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

[1]

Chira S. The Comforts of Jane. New York Times 2016:BR25.

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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