How to format your references using the Food Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Policy. 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	Download the output style file
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

Stern, A., 2010. Non-Abelian states of matter. Nature 464, 187–193.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hambourger, M., Moore, T.A., 2009. Chemistry. Nailing down nickel for electrocatalysis. Science 326, 1355–1356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arp, G., Reimer, A., Reitner, J., 2001. Photosynthesis-induced biofilm calcification and calcium concentrations in Phanerozoic oceans. Science 292, 1701–1704.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yan, X.-Y., Han, X.-P., Wang, B.-H., Zhou, T., 2013. Diversity of individual mobility patterns and emergence of aggregated scaling laws. Sci. Rep. 3, 2678.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Assing, D., Calé, S., 2013. Mobile Access Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA.

An edited book

Fagot-Largeault, A., Rahman, S., Torres, J.M. (Eds.), 2007. The Influence of Genetics on Contemporary Thinking, Logic, Epistemology, and The Unity of Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Hamza, W., 2009. The Nile Delta, in: Dumont, H.J. (Ed.), The Nile: Origin, Environments, Limnology and Human Use, Monographiae Biologicae. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 75–94.

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 Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Flat Semiconductors Possible With New Material [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/flat-semiconductors-possible-new-material/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1992. DOD Service Academies: Academy Preparatory Schools Need a Clearer Mission and Better Oversight (No. NSIAD-92-57). 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

Westgate, M., 2009. La Boutique Fantasque: A full score edition for wind band (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Levy, C.J., Kishkovsky, S., 2008. Russian Strikes Back at BP’s Chairman, as Oil Dispute Flares Again. 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 (Stern, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hambourger and Moore, 2009; Stern, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Hambourger and Moore, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Yan et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Policy
Abbreviation	Food Policy
ISSN (print)	0306-9192
Scope	Food Science Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Development Sociology and Political Science