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]

Hentze MW. Protein synthesis. Believe it or not-translation in the nucleus. Science 2001;293:1058–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Barry C, Doeller CF. Neuroscience. 3D mapping in the brain. Science 2013;340:279–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chaudhari NK, Song MY, Yu J-S. Heteroatom-doped highly porous carbon from human urine. Sci Rep 2014;4:5221.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liu C, Xiao Y, Li X, Oppert B, Tabashnik BE, Wu K. Cis-mediated down-regulation of a trypsin gene associated with Bt resistance in cotton bollworm. Sci Rep 2014;4:7219.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cicek V. Corrosion Engineering and Cathodic Protection Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Brown ID, Poeppelmeier KR, editors. Bond Valences. vol. 158. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aguilar MJC. Dealing with Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Foreign Language Classroom. In: Soler EA, Jordà MPS, editors. Intercultural Language Use and Language Learning, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 59–78.

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

[1]

Fang J. How A Drop of Seawater on Graphene Generates Electricity. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-drop-seawater-graphene-generates-electricity/ (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. Information Technology: Assessment of the Commerce Department’s Report on Worker Demand and Supply. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Perilla JY. Support group for neonatal intensive care families: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

Gustines GG. Weak Sales Doom Black Panther Spinoff. New York Times 2017:C3.

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

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