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]

Stewart M. Structural biology. Nuclear trafficking. Science 2003;302:1513–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ketting RF, Plasterk RH. A genetic link between co-suppression and RNA interference in C. elegans. Nature 2000;404:296–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bergmann DC, Lukowitz W, Somerville CR. Stomatal development and pattern controlled by a MAPKK kinase. Science 2004;304:1494–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cino EA, Killoran RC, Karttunen M, Choy W-Y. Binding of disordered proteins to a protein hub. Sci Rep 2013;3:2305.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gadd K. TRIZ für Ingenieure. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Choukèr A. The Immune System in Space: Are we prepared? Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Biermann E, Ermel C, Taentzer G. Precise Semantics of EMF Model Transformations by Graph Transformation. In: Czarnecki K, Ober I, Bruel J-M, Uhl A, Völter M, editors. Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: 11th International Conference, MoDELS 2008, Toulouse, France, September 28 - October 3, 2008. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 53–67.

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]

Andrew E. How To Identify Someone With A Rare Disease. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-identify-someone-rare-disease/ (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. High Risk Series: Guaranteed Student Loans. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Du L. Economic model for vehicle ownership quota policy analysis. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2012.

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]

Gorman J. All Aboard an ‘Alien Starship.’ New York Times 2017:D2.

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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