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

Stein L (2002) Creating a bioinformatics nation. Nature 417:119–120

A journal article with 2 authors

Bagnall MW, McLean DL (2014) Modular organization of axial microcircuits in zebrafish. Science 343:197–200

A journal article with 3 authors

Orlove BS, Chiang JC, Cane MA (2000) Forecasting Andean rainfall and crop yield from the influence of El Nino on Pleiades visibility. Nature 403:68–71

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chua L-L, Zaumseil J, Chang J-F, et al (2005) General observation of n-type field-effect behaviour in organic semiconductors. Nature 434:194–199

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woods LC (2005) Theory of Tokamak Transport. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Gooßen LJ (2013) Inventing Reactions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rocchi P (2010) Intelligent Adaptation and the Nature of Software Changes. In: Wang Y, Zhang D, Kinsner W (eds) Advances in Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–69

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

Fang J (2014) Bizarre Ostrich-Like Dino Solves 50-Year-Old Mystery. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dino-was-part-ostrich-part-sailback/. 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 (2002) Answers to Independence Standard Questions (Superseded by GAO-12-331G) GAO-02-870G, July 2002. 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

Andrews A (2013) Yoga as mental health treatment for cancer survivors: A grant proposal. 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

Pilon M (2013) Dog’s Death After Westminster Has Handler Suspecting It Wasn’t an Accident. New York Times B12

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)