How to format your references using the Nutrition Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nutrition Journal. 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. Kidd T. Neuroscience. Crossing the line. Science. 2009;324:893–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Li L, Wang Y. What drives the aerosol distribution in Guangdong--the most developed province in Southern China? Sci Rep. 2014;4:5972.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Innes C, Anand M, Bauch CT. The impact of human-environment interactions on the stability of forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2689.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Harmon LJ, Matthews B, Des Roches S, Chase JM, Shurin JB, Schluter D. Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning. Nature. 2009;458:1167–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Celant G, Broniatowski M. Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Banerjee S, Rondoni L, editors. Applications of Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics in Science and Engineering - Vol. 3. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Friberg J, Al-Rawi FNH. Five Texts from Old Babylonian Mê-Turran (Tell Haddad), Ishchali and Shaduppûm (Tell Harmal) with Rectangular-Linear Problems for Figures of a Given Form. In: Al-Rawi FNH, editor. New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 149–212.

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 Journal.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Jellyfish Sting Under The Microscope In Slow Motion [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/jellyfish-sting-under-microscope-slow-motion/

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. Charges Made by the National Federation of the Blind Against the National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving the Blind and Visually Handicapped. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974 Sep. Report No.: B-176886.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fox RN. Interpreting architecture: A Krauszian approach [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Perlstein L. The Transformer. New York Times. 2008 Oct 19;BR19.

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 Journal
Abbreviation	Nutr. J.
ISSN (online)	1475-2891
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Nutrition and Dietetics