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

Padian K (2015) Palaeontology: Dinosaur up in the air. Nature 521:40–41

A journal article with 2 authors

Tenopir C, King DW (2001) Lessons for the future of journals. Nature 413:672–674

A journal article with 3 authors

Brunton BW, Botvinick MM, Brody CD (2013) Rats and humans can optimally accumulate evidence for decision-making. Science 340:95–98

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yoshida T, Jones LE, Ellner SP, et al (2003) Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator-prey system. Nature 424:303–306

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pruitt G (2016) The Ultimate Algorithmic Trading System Toolbox + Website. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gałecki A (2013) Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using R: A Step-by-Step Approach. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Gourley SA, Liu R, Wu J (2008) Spatiotemporal Patterns of Disease Spread: Interaction of Physiological Structure, Spatial Movements, Disease Progression and Human Intervention. In: Magal P, Ruan S (eds) Structured Population Models in Biology and Epidemiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 165–208

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) Adorable Slow Lorises Will Go For The Most Potent Of Drinks. In: IFLScience. 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 (2000) Aviation Competition: Issues Related to the Proposed United Airlines-US Airways Merger. 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

Kennedy-Reid SK (2012) Exploring the Habitus: A Phenomenological Study of Transformative Learning Processes. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Hodara S (2016) Art in Plain English. New York Times WE9

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)

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