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

Lepenies W (2001) Cultures of knowledge. Nature 410:629–630

A journal article with 2 authors

Bel S, Hooper LV (2015) Immunology: A bacterial nudge to T-cell function. Nature 526:328–330

A journal article with 3 authors

Costello C, Gaines S, Gerber LR (2012) Conservation science: A market approach to saving the whales. Nature 481:139–140

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pellikka M, Tanentzapf G, Pinto M, et al (2002) Crumbs, the Drosophila homologue of human CRB1/RP12, is essential for photoreceptor morphogenesis. Nature 416:143–149

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Estopinal SV, Lathrop W (2011) Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Aspin DN (2007) Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Trovati M (2015) An Overview of Some Theoretical Topological Aspects of Big Data. In: Trovati M, Hill R, Anjum A, et al (eds) Big-Data Analytics and Cloud Computing: Theory, Algorithms and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 53–64

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 (2014) Paleontologists Discover Extinct Kitten-Sized Predator. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/paleontologists-discover-extinct-kitten-sized-predator/. 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 (2008) Safe Routes to School: Progress in Implementing the Program, but a Comprehensive Plan to Evaluate Program Outcomes Is Needed. 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

Steigner T (2008) A study of cross -border takeovers: Examining the impact of national culture on internalization benefits, and the implications of early versus late -mover status for bidders and their rivals. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Walsh MW, Corkery M (2015) Puerto Rican Bank Left Debt, Not Development. 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)