How to format your references using the Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety. 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

Rejmánek, M. (2015). Ecology: Global trends in plant naturalization. Nature, 525(7567), 39–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sorensen, E. J., & Sammis, G. M. (2004). Chemistry. A dash of proline makes things sweet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5691), 1725–1726.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dwyer, C. A., Stevenson, D. J., & Nimmo, F. (2011). A long-lived lunar dynamo driven by continuous mechanical stirring. Nature, 479(7372), 212–214.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ulloa Ulloa, C., Acevedo-Rodríguez, P., Beck, S., Belgrano, M. J., Bernal, R., Berry, P. E., Brako, L., Celis, M., Davidse, G., Forzza, R. C., Gradstein, S. R., Hokche, O., León, B., León-Yánez, S., Magill, R. E., Neill, D. A., Nee, M., Raven, P. H., Stimmel, H., … Jørgensen, P. M. (2017). An integrated assessment of the vascular plant species of the Americas. Science (New York, N.Y.), 358(6370), 1614–1617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, A. (2008). A Practical Guide to Reliable Finite Element Modelling. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tarn, T.-J., Chen, S.-B., & Zhou, C. (Eds.). (2007). Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation (Vol. 362). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

López-López, E. A., Hernández-Gallegos, M. A., Cornejo-Mazón, M., & Hernández-Sánchez, H. (2015). Polysaccharide-Based Nanoparticles. In H. Hernández-Sánchez & G. F. Gutiérrez-López (Eds.), Food Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (pp. 59–68). Springer International Publishing.

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 Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, September 21). North Americans Were Salmon Fishing 11,500 Years Ago. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/north-americans-were-salmon-fishing-11500-years-ago/

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. (2010). Information Technology: HUD Needs to Better Define Commitments and Disclose Risks for Modernization Projects in Future Expenditure Plans (GAO-11-72). 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

Gamez Grijalva, V. M. (2009). Biological and physical-chemical methods for treatment of semiconductor manufacturing effluents [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Hollander, S. (2009, February 8). La Dolce Video. New York Times, CY1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rejmánek, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rejmánek, 2015; Sorensen & Sammis, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Sorensen & Sammis, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ulloa Ulloa et al., 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety
ISSN (print)	1541-4337
Scope