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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Nutrition. 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

Siegfried T (2005) In praise of hard questions. Science 309:76–77

A journal article with 2 authors

Lambeck K, Chappell J (2001) Sea level change through the last glacial cycle. Science 292:679–686

A journal article with 3 authors

Cabernard C, Prehoda KE, Doe CQ (2010) A spindle-independent cleavage furrow positioning pathway. Nature 467:91–94

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Olmeta-Schult F, Segal LM, Tyner S, et al (2018) NextGen VOICES: Research resolutions. Science 359:26–28

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arifin SMN, Madey GR, Collins FH (2016) Spatial Agent-Based Simulation Modeling in Public Health. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kidokoro T, Harata N, Subanu LP, et al (2008) Sustainable City Regions: Space, Place and Governance. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Brna P (2008) Narrative Interactive Multimedia Learning Environments: Achievements and Challenges. In: Tsihrintzis GA, Virvou M, Howlett RJ, Jain LC (eds) New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 33–44

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 Journal of Nutrition.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Controversial Study Wants To Resurrect Brain-Dead People. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/controversial-study-wants-to-resurrect-braindead-people/. 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 (2001) A Practical Guide to Federal Enterprise Architecture, Version 1.0 (Extended by GAO-03-584G). 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

Smith KM (2008) Meanings of “design” in instructional technology: A conceptual analysis based on the field’s foundational literature. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Rothenberg B (2016) Unshaken by Her Low Ranking, Wozniacki Easily Defeats Keys. New York Times D4

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 Journal of Nutrition
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Nutr.
ISSN (print)	1436-6207
ISSN (online)	1436-6215
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Nutrition and Dietetics