How to format your references using the Plant Foods for Human Nutrition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Chyba CF (2000) Energy for microbial life on Europa. Nature 403:381–382

A journal article with 2 authors

Hensch TK, Stryker MP (2004) Columnar architecture sculpted by GABA circuits in developing cat visual cortex. Science 303:1678–1681

A journal article with 3 authors

Zheng X, Zhang R, Huang H (2014) Theoretical modeling of relative humidity on contact electrification of sand particles. Sci Rep 4:4399

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dalgarno SJ, Tucker SA, Bassil DB, Atwood JL (2005) Fluorescent guest molecules report ordered inner phase of host capsules in solution. Science 309:2037–2039

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eidhammer I, Barsnes H, Eide GE, Martens L (2013) Computational and Statistical Methods for Protein Quantification by Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Ernst A, Herth FJF (2013) Principles and Practice of Interventional Pulmonology. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Encheva S, Tumin S (2009) Effectiveness of Business Alliances Partnerships. In: Damiani E, Jeong J, Howlett RJ, Jain LC (eds) New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services - 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–52

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 Plant Foods for Human Nutrition.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Every Hour You Spend In Front Of A Screen Is Linked To Poorer Exam Results. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/every-hour-you-spend-front-screen-linked-poorer-exam-results/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2015) Aviation Security: TSA Should Take Additional Action to Obtain Stakeholder Input when Modifying the Prohibited Items List. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tchen Y (2010) An evaluation of the effectiveness of mandatory reporting of health care associated infection. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Protess B, Stevenson A (2016) S.E.C. Chief Among First to Plan Exit. New York Times B1

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	Plant Foods for Human Nutrition
Abbreviation	Plant Foods Hum. Nutr.
ISSN (print)	0921-9668
ISSN (online)	1573-9104
Scope	Food Science Chemistry (miscellaneous)