How to format your references using the British Journal of Nutrition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Nutrition (BJN). 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 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

Smith C (2013) Cancer shows strength through diversity. Nature 499, 505–508.

A journal article with 2 authors

Spalding MD & Brown BE (2015) Warm-water coral reefs and climate change. Science 350, 769–771.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chabre M, Cone R, & Saibil H (2003) Biophysics: is rhodopsin dimeric in native retinal rods? Nature 426, 30–1; discussion 31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Krenner W, Kühne D, Klappenberger F, & Barth JV (2013) Assessment of scanning tunneling spectroscopy modes inspecting electron confinement in surface-confined supramolecular networks. Sci Rep 3, 1454.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ibrahim D (2006) Microcontroller Based Applied Digital Control. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Jordan WR (2011) Making Nature Whole: A History of Ecological Restoration. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics.

A chapter in an edited book

Chakravarty SR (2006) An Axiomatic Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement via Fuzzy Sets. In Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, pp. 49–72 [Lemmi A and Betti G, editors]. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 British Journal of Nutrition.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Turns Out That New Massive Ancient Egyptian Statue Isn’t Ramses II. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/turns-out-that-new-massive-ancient-egyptian-statue-isnt-ramses-ii/ (accessed October 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

Government Accountability Office (1997) Transportation Infrastructure: States’ Implementation of Transportation Management Systems. T-RCED-97-79.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bottorff AK (2010) Evaluating summer school programs and the effect on student achievement: The correlation between Stanford-10 standardized test scores and two different summer programs. 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

Greenhouse L (2007) Justices’ Vote in Death Case Is Close Again, but Differing. New York Times A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	British Journal of Nutrition
ISSN (print)	0007-1145
ISSN (online)	1475-2662
Scope