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

Ponder BA (2001) Cancer genetics. Nature 411:336–341

A journal article with 2 authors

Leinwand LA, Moss RL (2011) Medicine. Chemically tuned myosin motors. Science 331:1392–1393

A journal article with 3 authors

Gregory JM, Huybrechts P, Raper SCB (2004) Climatology: threatened loss of the Greenland ice-sheet. Nature 428:616

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu T, DeCostanzo AJ, Liu X, et al (2001) G protein signaling from activated rat frizzled-1 to the beta-catenin-Lef-Tcf pathway. Science 292:1718–1722

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Valiev RZ, Zhilyaev AP, Langdon TG (2013) Bulk Nanostructured Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ribeiro AB, Mateus EP, Couto N (2016) Electrokinetics Across Disciplines and Continents: New Strategies for Sustainable Development. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Gonnissen H, Schuermans J, Politis C, et al (2009) Success of autogenous tooth transplantation: a retrospective and prospective approach. In: Dössel O, Schlegel WC (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/11 Biomedical Engineering for Audiology, Ophthalmology, Emergency & Dental Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 17–20

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

Davis J (2016) Red Squirrels In The UK Are Infected By Human Leprosy. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/red-squirrels-in-the-uk-are-infected-by-human-leprosy/. 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 (2007) Higher Education: Challenges in Attracting International Students to the United States and Implications for Global Competitiveness. 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

Sefrit J (2008) A study of the effectiveness of a school district’s mentoring /professional development plan for beginning teachers. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Corkery M (2017) Investors Lose Patience As Retail Fails to Rally. New York Times B3

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)