How to format your references using the The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Kiefer T. Ocean science. When still waters ran deep. Science 2010;329:290–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Belloc E, Méndez R. A deadenylation negative feedback mechanism governs meiotic metaphase arrest. Nature 2008;452:1017–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Achlioptas D, D’Souza RM, Spencer J. Explosive percolation in random networks. Science 2009;323:1453–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kawahara Y, Ito K, Sun H, Aizawa H, Kanazawa I, Kwak S. Glutamate receptors: RNA editing and death of motor neurons. Nature 2004;427:801.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schwartz R. Rethinking Pragmatism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Radwan A, Rodriguez J, editors. Energy Efficient Smart Phones for 5G Networks. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gertz O, McGlashan D. Consumer-Centric Programmatic Advertising. In: Busch O, editor. Programmatic Advertising: The Successful Transformation to Automated, Data-Driven Marketing in Real-Time, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 55–73.

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 The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.

Blog post

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Andrew E. NASA Seeks Images & Messages For Asteroid Time Capsule. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-seeks-images-messages-asteroid-time-capsule/ (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

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Government Accountability Office. Discretionary Grants: Education Needs to Improve Its Oversight of Grants Monitoring. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Magner TJ. Performance and leadership in multiplayer online gaming. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2014.

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

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Reinhart MK. Perla Farias and David Portugal Jr. New York Times 2010:ST9.

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	The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
Abbreviation	J. Nutr. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0955-2863
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Molecular Biology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Nutrition and Dietetics