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. Ritvo H. Essays on science and society. Fighting for Thirlmere--the roots of environmentalism. Science. 2003;300:1510–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lodish H, Fedoroff N. Retrospective. Norton Zinder (1928-2012). Science. 2012;335:1316.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Conard NJ, Grootes PM, Smith FH. Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd. Nature. 2004;430:198–201.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Currie MJ, Mapel JK, Heidel TD, Goffri S, Baldo MA. High-efficiency organic solar concentrators for photovoltaics. Science. 2008;321:226–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Attwood D, Baybutt P, Devlin C, Fluharty W, Hughes G, Isaacson D, et al. Human Factors Methods for Improving Performance in the Process Industries. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

1. Wang T-D, Li X, Chen S-H, Wang X, Abbass H, Iba H, et al., editors. Simulated Evolution and Learning: 6th International Conference, SEAL 2006, Hefei, China, October 15-18, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wang J-Q, Zhang C-W, Fan G-Q, Sun S-D. Heuristics for Non-dominated Sets of Two-Agent Scheduling on a Single Parallel-Batching Machine. In: Bajo J, Hallenborg K, Pawlewski P, Botti V, Sánchez-Pi N, Duque Méndez ND, et al., editors. Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Sustainability - The PAAMS Collection: International Workshops of PAAMS 2015, Salamanca, Spain, June 3-4, 2015 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 55–68.

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. Five Myths About Gravitational Waves [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/five-myths-about-gravitational-waves/

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. Record Linkage and Privacy: Issues in Creating New Federal Research and Statistical Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Apr. Report No.: GAO-01-126SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Alla B. Wellbore Stability Analysis of Sanish Field using 3-D Finite Element Model: Bakken Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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. Vecsey G. Under the Radar Amid Wide Labor Strife. New York Times. 2011 Feb 23;B11.

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

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