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. Palmer T. Climate forecasting: build high-resolution global climate models. Nature. 2014;515:338–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Holman MJ, Murray NW. The use of transit timing to detect terrestrial-mass extrasolar planets. Science. 2005;307:1288–91.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hinks DG, Claus H, Jorgensen JD. The complex nature of superconductivity in MgB2 as revealed by the reduced total isotope effect. Nature. 2001;411:457–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yamamoto K, Sakata Y, Nohara Y, Takahashi Y, Tatsumi T. Organic-inorganic hybrid zeolites containing organic frameworks. Science. 2003;300:470–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Gonzalez R, Qi F, Huang B. Process Control System Fault Diagnosis: A Bayesian Approach. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Winter A. Health Information Systems: Architectures and Strategies. Second Edition. Haux R, Ammenwerth E, Brigl B, Hellrung N, Jahn F, editors. London: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Damgård I, Lunemann C. Quantum-Secure Coin-Flipping and Applications. In: Matsui M, editor. Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2009: 15th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Tokyo, Japan, December 6-10, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 52–69.

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. Fang J. Dragonflies Can Predict Their Prey’s Next Move [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dragonflies-can-predict-their-preys-next-move/

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. Education and Employment Issues: Issue Area Plan for Fiscal Year 1997-99. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 May. Report No.: IAP-97-10.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Amos AE. Perceptions of the persistent: Academic experiences of first generation community college students [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 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. St. John Kelly E. Whose Hat? New York Times. 1997 Nov 30;93.

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