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

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Goldston D. Political climate. Nature 2007;450:333.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Liu C-Y, Bard AJ. Pressure-induced insulator conductor transition in a photoconducting organic liquid-crystal film. Nature 2002;418:162–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Ball LT, Lloyd-Jones GC, Russell CA. Gold-catalyzed direct arylation. Science 2012;337:1644–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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Gratten J, Wilson AJ, McRae AF, Beraldi D, Visscher PM, Pemberton JM, et al. A localized negative genetic correlation constrains microevolution of coat color in wild sheep. Science 2008;319:318–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Venkat S, Baird S. Liquidity Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Upton D. Psychology of Wounds and Wound Care in Clinical Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

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Ortiz C. The Private Military Company: An Entity at the Center of Overlapping Spheres of Commercial Activity and Responsibility. In: Jäger T, Kümmel G, editors. Private Military and Security Companies: Chances, Problems, Pitfalls and Prospects, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften; 2007, p. 55–68.

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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Hale T. Scientists Discover The World’s Largest Sea Sponge. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-worlds-largest-sea-sponge/ (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. [Response to Request for Views on Application of P.L. 99-177 to Teacher Loan Cancellations]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

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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Ge Z. Link performance analysis of disaster monitoring system. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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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Crow K. Few Kind Words Are Heard for a Proposed Economic Zone. New York Times 2002:146.

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