How to format your references using the Food Analytical Methods citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Analytical Methods. 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

Moller DE (2001) New drug targets for type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. Nature 414:821–827

A journal article with 2 authors

De Francesco R, Migliaccio G (2005) Challenges and successes in developing new therapies for hepatitis C. Nature 436:953–960

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldini JUL, McDermott F, Fairchild IJ (2002) Structure of the 8200-year cold event revealed by a speleothem trace element record. Science 296:2203–2206

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Boris AV, Matiks Y, Benckiser E, et al (2011) Dimensionality control of electronic phase transitions in nickel-oxide superlattices. Science 332:937–940

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mamishev A, Williams S (2010) Technical Writing for Teams. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Antoniou G, Grobelnik M, Simperl E, et al (eds) (2011) The Semanic Web: Research and Applications: 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 – June 2, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Verdonschot PFM (2006) Data composition and taxonomic resolution in macroinvertebrate stream typology. In: Furse MT, Hering D, Brabec K, et al. (eds) The Ecological Status of European Rivers: Evaluation and Intercalibration of Assessment Methods. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 59–74

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 Food Analytical Methods.

Blog post

Fang J (2016) Tiny Songbird Flies 60 Hours Nonstop Across The Sahara. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiny-songbird-flies-60-hours-nonstop-across-sahara/. 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 (2000) Federal Communications Commission: Extending Wireless Telecommunications Services to Tribal Lands. 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

Gnoinska MK (2010) Poland and the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia, 1949-1965. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Kanter J (2017) Europe’s Leaders Aim to Slow Migration on Dangerous Sea Route From Africa. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moller 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Moller 2001; De Francesco and Migliaccio 2005).

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

Two authors: (De Francesco and Migliaccio 2005)
Three or more authors: (Boris et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Analytical Methods
Abbreviation	Food Anal. Methods
ISSN (print)	1936-9751
ISSN (online)	1936-976X
Scope	Food Science Analytical Chemistry Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Safety Research