How to format your references using the Food Ethics citation style

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

Sarewitz, Daniel. 2011. The voice of science: let’s agree to disagree. Nature 478: 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lavik, Erin, and Jeffrey Ustin. 2012. Medicine. Leveraging shear stress to bust clots with nanoparticles. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337: 658–659.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hata, Shigefumi, Hiroya Nakao, and Alexander S. Mikhailov. 2014. Dispersal-induced destabilization of metapopulations and oscillatory Turing patterns in ecological networks. Scientific reports 4: 3585.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Curro, N. J., T. Caldwell, E. D. Bauer, L. A. Morales, M. J. Graf, Y. Bang, A. V. Balatsky, J. D. Thompson, and J. L. Sarrao. 2005. Unconventional superconductivity in PuCoGa5. Nature 434: 622–625.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reed, Sandra M., and Hrci. 2017. The HRCI Official Body of Knowledge. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Simos, Theodore E., ed. 2011. Recent Advances in Computational and Applied Mathematics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Gonzalez, Raul S., and Kay Washington. 2016. Lobular Changes. In Non-Neoplastic Liver Pathology: A Pathologist’s Survival Guide, ed. Kay Washington, 27–36. Cham: 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 Ethics.

Blog post

Carpineti, Chris. 2017. This Awesome Omnicopter Drone Can Play Catch. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 25.

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. 1989. Student Athletes: Most Schools Meet Proposed Academic Performance Reporting Requirements. HRD-89-157BR. Washington, DC: 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

Bilbrey, Joshua. 2017. The Positive Effects Extrinsic Motivation Can Have on Intrinsic Motivation in a Math Classroom. Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Protess, Ben, and Steve Eder. 2017. Donating Profits From Foreign Officials Is Complicated Task, Trump Group Says. New York Times, May 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Sarewitz 2011; Lavik and Ustin 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lavik and Ustin 2012)
Three or more authors: (Curro et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Ethics
Abbreviation	Food Ethics
ISSN (print)	2364-6853
ISSN (online)	2364-6861
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