How to format your references using the Nutrition Research Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nutrition Research Reviews (NRR). 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

Broecker WS. Does the trigger for abrupt climate change reside in the ocean or in the atmosphere? Science. 2003 Jun 6;300(5625):1519–22.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fischbach MA, Walsh CT. Antibiotics for emerging pathogens. Science. 2009 Aug 28;325(5944):1089–93.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kang H, Koh D-Y, Lee H. Nondestructive natural gas hydrate recovery driven by air and carbon dioxide. Sci. Rep. 2014 Oct 14;4:6616.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Grill SW, Gönczy P, Stelzer EH, et al. Polarity controls forces governing asymmetric spindle positioning in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. Nature. 2001 Feb 1;409(6820):630–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shanmugam R, Chattamvelli R. Statistics for Scientists and Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Breidlid A, Cheyeka AM, Farag AI, editors. Perspectives on Youth, HIV/AIDS and Indigenous Knowledges. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferri RB, Lesh R. Should Interpretation Systems Be Considered to Be Models if They Only Function Implicitly? In: Stillman GA, Kaiser G, Blum W, et al., editors. Teaching Mathematical Modelling: Connecting to Research and Practice. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 57–66.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

Andrews R. New Form Of Life In Human Saliva Is A Bacterial Parasite [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-form-of-life-in-human-saliva-is-a-bacterial-parasite/

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

Government Accountability Office. Assessment of the Explanation That Immigration and Customs Enforcement Provided for Its Subsequent Transfer from the Spectrum Relocation Fund. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Sep. Report No.: GAO-08-846R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Djajalaksana YM. A National Survey of Instructional Strategies Used to Teach Information Systems Courses: An Exploratory Investigation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2011.

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

Robles F, Alvarez L, Yee V. Entire State Shudders as Hurricane Irma Roars Into Florida. New York Times. 2017 Sep 11;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Reviews
ISSN (print)	0954-4224
ISSN (online)	1475-2700
Scope