How to format your references using the Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Abbott, A. (2001). Hopes of biotech interest spur Latvian population genetics. Nature, 412(6846), 468.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murakami, M., & Kouyama, T. (2008). Crystal structure of squid rhodopsin. Nature, 453(7193), 363–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Applegate, P. J., Lowell, T. V., & Alley, R. B. (2008). Comment on “Absence of cooling in New Zealand and the adjacent ocean during the Younger Dryas chronozone.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5877), 746; author reply 746.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Nakamura, D., Gunjishima, I., Yamaguchi, S., Ito, T., Okamoto, A., Kondo, H., Onda, S., & Takatori, K. (2004). Ultrahigh-quality silicon carbide single crystals. Nature, 430(7003), 1009–1012.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pachamanova, D. A., & Fabozzi, F. J. (2010). Simulation and Optimization in Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rebuschi, M., Batt, M., Heinzmann, G., Lihoreau, F., Musiol, M., & Trognon, A. (Eds.). (2014). Interdisciplinary Works in Logic, Epistemology, Psychology and Linguistics: Dialogue, Rationality, and Formalism (Vol. 3). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Barkalov, A., & Titarenko, L. (2008). Synthesis of compositional microprogram control units with code sharing. In A. Barkalov & L. Titarenko (Eds.), Logic Synthesis for Compositional Microprogram Control Units (pp. 99–135). Springer.

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 Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, May 20). 22q11.2 Deletion: The Most Common Syndrome You Have Never Heard Of. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/22q112-deletion-the-most-common-syndrome-you-have-never-heard-of/

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

Government Accountability Office. (1998). FCC: Service and Auction Rules for the 38.6-40.0 GHz Frequency Band (OGC-98-29). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Turpin-Padberg, S. (2017). Effects of Elementary Teacher Preparation and Support on Retention [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood University.

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

Goodman, P. S. (2017, July 6). As U.S. Raises Walls on Trade, Allies Move On. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2001; Murakami & Kouyama, 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Murakami & Kouyama, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Nakamura et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre
ISSN (print)	2212-6198
Scope	Food Science Biochemistry Organic Chemistry