How to format your references using the Obesity citation style

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

Sartorius N. Short-lived campaigns are not enough. Nature 2010;468:163–165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poucet B, Save E. Neuroscience. Attractors in memory. Science 2005;308:799–800.

A journal article with 3 authors

Núñez L, Grosjean M, Cartajena I. Human occupations and climate change in the Puna de Atacama, Chile. Science 2002;298:821–824.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Doss GPC, Rajith B, Chakraborty C, NagaSundaram N, Ali SK, Zhu H. Structural signature of the G719S-T790M double mutation in the EGFR kinase domain and its response to inhibitors. Sci Rep 2014;4:5868.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zarowski CJ. An Introduction to Numerical Analysis for Electrical and Computer Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

Deconinck H, Dick E eds. Computational Fluid Dynamics 2006: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD, Ghent, Belgium, 10-14 July 2006. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Enficiaud R. Queue and Priority Queue Based Algorithms for Computing the Quasi-distance Transform. In: Campilho A, Kamel M (eds.). Image Analysis and Recognition: 7th International Conference, ICIAR 2010, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 21-23, 2010. Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010, pp 35–44.

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 Obesity.

Blog post

Fang J. (2018). How One Bird Got Three Such Different-Looking Males. [WWW document]. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-one-bird-got-three-such-different-looks/

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. Status of Trident and SSN-688 Submarine Construction. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Waidelich LA. Identifying Leadership Potential: The Process of Principals within a Charter School Network. 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

Chira S. When Japan Had a Third Gender. New York Times 2017:C1.

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	Obesity
Abbreviation	Obesity (Silver Spring)
ISSN (print)	1930-7381
ISSN (online)	1930-739X
Scope	Endocrinology Medicine (miscellaneous) Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Nutrition and Dietetics

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