How to format your references using the Food Packaging and Shelf Life citation style

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

Canup, R. M. (2015). Solar System: An incredible likeness of being. Nature, 520(7546), 169–170.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schumacher, M. A., & Funnell, B. E. (2005). Structures of ParB bound to DNA reveal mechanism of partition complex formation. Nature, 438(7067), 516–519.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brunkard, J. O., Runkel, A. M., & Zambryski, P. C. (2015). Evolution. Comment on “A promiscuous intermediate underlies the evolution of LEAFY DNA binding specificity.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6222), 621.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yen, T. J., Padilla, W. J., Fang, N., Vier, D. C., Smith, D. R., Pendry, J. B., Basov, D. N., & Zhang, X. (2004). Terahertz magnetic response from artificial materials. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5663), 1494–1496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Calloway, J. (2007). Work Like You’re Showing Off! John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chen, H., Chau, M., Li, S.-H., Urs, S., Srinivasa, S., & Wang, G. A. (Eds.). (2010). Intelligence and Security Informatics: Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2010, Hyderabad, India, June 21, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6122). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

He, Y., & Su, Y. (2014). Silicon-Based Nanoprobes for Bioimaging Applications. In Y. Su (Ed.), Silicon Nano-biotechnology (pp. 61–73). Springer.

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 Packaging and Shelf Life.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 27). Rare Glimpse: Satellites Catch The Birth Of Two Volcanic Islands. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rare-glimpse-satellites-catch-birth-two-volcanic-islands/

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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Readiness Improving Yet Essential Actions Remain to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services (T-AIMD-99-268). 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

Yi, M. (2015). Interrater reliability between novice and expert functional movement screen raters [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Sisario, B. (2017, October 9). Shania Twain Returns To Top of Album Chart. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Canup, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Canup, 2015; Schumacher & Funnell, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Schumacher & Funnell, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Yen et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Packaging and Shelf Life
Abbreviation	Food Packag. Shelf Life
ISSN (print)	2214-2894
Scope	Food Science Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Biomaterials Polymers and Plastics Microbiology (medical)