How to format your references using the Food Chemistry: X citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Chemistry: X. 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

Stokstad, E. (2000). SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY: Homegrown Quartz Muddies the Water. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5484), 1449–1451.

A journal article with 2 authors

Singh, I., & Rose, N. (2009). Biomarkers in psychiatry. Nature, 460(7252), 202–207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schieber, J., Southard, J., & Thaisen, K. (2007). Accretion of mudstone beds from migrating floccule ripples. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5857), 1760–1763.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yao, N., Huang, Z.-G., Lai, Y.-C., & Zheng, Z.-G. (2013). Robustness of chimera states in complex dynamical systems. Scientific Reports, 3, 3522.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kay, J., & Tasman, A. (2006). Essentials of Psychiatry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Trivedi, R., Saba, L., & Suri, J. S. (Eds.). (2015). 3D Imaging Technologies in Atherosclerosis (1st ed. 2015). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Webster, C. (2015). Spanish- and English-Speaking Hispanic Subcultural Consumption Differences. In K. D. Bahn (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1988 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference (pp. 18–22). 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 Food Chemistry: X.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, September 9). Sperm Whales Have Local Dialects. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sperm-whales-have-local-dialects/

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. (1991). Stock Market Automation: Exchanges Have Increased Systems’ Capacities Since the 1987 Market Crash (IMTEC-91-37). 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

Richey, B. (2014). Exploration of a Tandem Diels-Alder Ugi-Smiles Reaction [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Oestreich, J. R. (2016, November 21). For the Record, a Conductor Talks With an Author. New York Times, C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stokstad, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Singh & Rose, 2009; Stokstad, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Singh & Rose, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Yao et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Chemistry: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1575
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