How to format your references using the Pratiques en nutrition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pratiques en 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

[1]

Grünbaum D. Ecology. Why did you Lévy? Science 2011;332:1514–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Starr DJ, Cline TW. A host parasite interaction rescues Drosophila oogenesis defects. Nature 2002;418:76–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Robinson IM, Ranjan R, Schwarz TL. Synaptotagmins I and IV promote transmitter release independently of Ca(2+) binding in the C(2)A domain. Nature 2002;418:336–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang X, Lu T, Snider RK, Liang L. Sustained firing in auditory cortex evoked by preferred stimuli. Nature 2005;435:341–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chitty J, Raftery A. Essentials of Tortoise Medicine and Surgery. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Yang Q, Zhang J-M, Zheng H, Yao Y, editors. Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials: Advances and New Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bonaccorsi S. Volterra Equations Perturbed by a Gaussian Noise. In: Dalang RC, Russo F, Dozzi M, editors. Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications V: Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, May 2005, Basel: Birkhäuser; 2008, p. 37–55.

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 Pratiques en nutrition.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Woman Who Claims She Is “Allergic” To Wi-Fi Signals Given Compensation By French Court. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-who-claims-she-allergic-wi-fi-signals-given-compensation-french-court/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. BART Airport Extension Update. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Walther RL. Approaches to Stream Restoration: Practices in Missouri and Illinois. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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

[1]

Kelly K. At Goldman, Dim Results For Trading In Early 2017. New York Times 2017: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	Pratiques en nutrition
ISSN (print)	1766-7305
Scope	Nutrition and Dietetics