How to format your references using the Nutrition Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nutrition Research. 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]

Triendl R. Staffing shortage threatens Japan’s structural genomics. Nature 2001;410:724.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Williams LE, Bargh JA. Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth. Science 2008;322:606–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kiss IZ, Zhai Y, Hudson JL. Emerging coherence in a population of chemical oscillators. Science 2002;296:1676–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Namiki Y, Ueyama T, Yoshida T, Watanabe R, Koido S, Namiki T. Hybrid micro-particles as a magnetically-guidable decontaminant for cesium-eluted ash slurry. Sci Rep 2014;4:6294.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Vanclef J. The Wealth Code 2.0. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Omatu S, Bersini H, Corchado JM, Rodríguez S, Pawlewski P, Bucciarelli E, editors. Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 11th International Conference. vol. 290. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hanson RK, Spearrin RM, Goldenstein CS. Effects of Nuclear Spin: Rotational Partition Function and Degeneracies. In: Spearrin RM, Goldenstein CS, editors. Spectroscopy and Optical Diagnostics for Gases, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 79–90.

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 Research.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Burial Pods Could Turn Cemeteries Into Forests. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/one-day-green-cemeteries-will-use-corpses-help-trees-grow/ (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. Weather Forecasting: National Weather Service Is Planning to Improve Service and Gain Efficiency, but Impacts of Potential Changes Are Not Yet Known. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

DeReus DL. The correlation between career anchors and satisfaction - a comparative analysis of multiple affiliations under a single organizational structure. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2012.

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]

Branch J. Bringing Sports World Into the ‘Now,’ With Gadgets. New York Times 2017:B5.

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 Research
Abbreviation	Nutr. Res.
ISSN (print)	0271-5317
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Nutrition and Dietetics