How to format your references using the European Food Research and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Food Research and Technology. 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

Heavens NG (2011) Planetary science. Sunshine on a cloudy forecast. Science 333:1832–1833

A journal article with 2 authors

Roe GH, Baker MB (2007) Why is climate sensitivity so unpredictable? Science 318:629–632

A journal article with 3 authors

Bomfleur B, McLoughlin S, Vajda V (2014) Fossilized nuclei and chromosomes reveal 180 million years of genomic stasis in royal ferns. Science 343:1376–1377

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kishimoto M, Antonucci R, Blaes O, et al (2008) The characteristic blue spectra of accretion disks in quasars as uncovered in the infrared. Nature 454:492–494

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zito R (2011) Electrochemical Water Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Dastani M, El Fallah Seghrouchni A, Ricci A, Winikoff M (2008) Programming Multi-Agent Systems: 5th International Workshop, ProMAS 2007 Honolulu, HI, USA, May 15, 2007 Revised and Invited Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bainbridge WS (2010) Science, Technology, and Reality in The Matrix Online and Tabula Rasa. In: Bainbridge WS (ed) Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual. Springer, London, pp 57–70

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 European Food Research and Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) What Happened To The Oil From The Deepwater Horizon Spill? ‘Marine Snow’ Provides A Clue. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-happened-oil-deepwater-horizon-spill-marine-snow-provides-clue/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2011) Space Acquisitions: Development and Oversight Challenges in Delivering Improved Space Situational Awareness Capabilities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vail AS (2012) The gift of noetic image: Spontaneous imagery and psychological well-being in women with breast cancer. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Urbina I (2015) Tricked While on Land, Abused or Killed at Sea. New York Times A1

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	European Food Research and Technology
Abbreviation	Eur. Food Res. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1438-2377
ISSN (online)	1438-2385
Scope	Food Science Biochemistry Biotechnology General Chemistry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering