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]

DiBiase RA. Earth science: River incision revisited. Nature 2014;505:294–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kleinteich T, Gorb SN. Tongue adhesion in the horned frog Ceratophrys sp. Sci Rep 2014;4:5225.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cochran ES, Vidale JE, Tanaka S. Earth tides can trigger shallow thrust fault earthquakes. Science 2004;306:1164–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Moustafa A, Beszteri B, Maier UG, Bowler C, Valentin K, Bhattacharya D. Genomic footprints of a cryptic plastid endosymbiosis in diatoms. Science 2009;324:1724–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tebbani S, Lopes F, Filali R, Dumur D, Pareau D. CO 2 Biofixation by Microalgae. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Falsafi B, VijayKumar TN, editors. Power-Aware Computer Systems: 4th International Workshop, PACS 2004, Portland, OR, USA, December 5, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 3471. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rodríguez-Cayetano M. Design and Development of a CPU Scheduler Simulator for Educational Purposes Using SDL. In: Kraemer FA, Herrmann P, editors. System Analysis and Modeling: About Models: 6th International Workshop, SAM 2010, Oslo, Norway, October 4-5, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 72–90.

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]

Andrew E. Why Arctic Melting Will Be Erratic In The Short Term. 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. Customs Service Modernization: Strategic Information Management Must Be Improved for National Automation Program to Succeed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Soheili A. A transannular Cope approach toward the core structure of isocyclocitrinol. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 2008.

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]

Billard M. Scouting Report. New York Times 2010:E6.

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

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