How to format your references using the Food Digestion: Research and Current Opinion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Digestion: Research and Current Opinion. 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

Rahmstorf S (2003) Thermohaline circulation: The current climate. Nature 421:699

A journal article with 2 authors

Schorlemmer D, Wiemer S (2005) Earth science: microseismicity data forecast rupture area. Nature 434:1086

A journal article with 3 authors

Bryden HL, McDonagh EL, King BA (2003) Changes in ocean water mass properties: oscillations or trends? Science 300:2086–2088

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Diebold SS, Montoya M, Unger H, et al (2003) Viral infection switches non-plasmacytoid dendritic cells into high interferon producers. Nature 424:324–328

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tibergien M, Pomering R (2011) Practice Made (More) Perfect. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Zaslavsky O, Sullivan P (2011) Constructing Knowledge for Teaching Secondary Mathematics: Tasks to enhance prospective and practicing teacher learning. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Fairchild PJ, Ichiryu N (2013) Mitigating the Risk of Immunogenicity in the Pursuit of Induced Pluripotency. In: Fairchild PJ (ed) The Immunological Barriers to Regenerative Medicine. Springer, New York, NY, pp 77–94

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 Digestion: Research and Current Opinion.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2015) Stephen Hawking Covers Monty Python’s ‘Galaxy Song.’ In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/stephen-hawking-covers-monty-python-s-galaxy-song/. 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 (2012) Spectrum Management: Federal Government’s Use of Spectrum and Preliminary Information on Spectrum Sharing. 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

Mayner SW (2017) Transformational leadership and organizational change during agile and devops initiatives. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Kelly C (2012) Girding for Anniversary Of Tragedy in Dallas. New York Times A29B

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	Food Digestion: Research and Current Opinion
Abbreviation	Food Dig.
ISSN (print)	1869-1978
ISSN (online)	1869-1986
Scope	Food Science Gastroenterology