How to format your references using the Food Research International citation style

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

Godfray, H. C. J. (2002). Challenges for taxonomy. Nature, 417(6884), 17–19.

A journal article with 2 authors

Orphanides, G., & Reinberg, D. (2000). RNA polymerase II elongation through chromatin. Nature, 407(6803), 471–475.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dunningham, J., Rau, A., & Burnett, K. (2005). From pedigree cats to fluffy-bunnies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5711), 872–875.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Michalet, X., Pinaud, F. F., Bentolila, L. A., Tsay, J. M., Doose, S., Li, J. J., Sundaresan, G., Wu, A. M., Gambhir, S. S., & Weiss, S. (2005). Quantum dots for live cells, in vivo imaging, and diagnostics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5709), 538–544.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bromfield, R. (2010). Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Berbari, A. E., & Mancia, G. (Eds.). (2012). Special Issues in Hypertension. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Leisinger, K. M. (2009). The Role of Corporations in Shaping Globalization with a Human Face. In J. Straus (Ed.), The Role of Law and Ethics in the Globalized Economy (pp. 1–19). 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 Research International.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, March 27). Stars Seen Forming Inside A Supermassive Black Hole’s Winds. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/stars-seen-forming-inside-a-supermassive-black-holes-winds/

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. (1987). The Need for Strong Central Oversight of the Federal Government’s War on Drugs (T-GGD-87-17). 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

Zometa, E. (2017). Imaging Service Consultations: Imaging Express [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

Kelly, M. (1993, June 6). Words And Deeds; The Guinier Affair Aggravates Clinton’s Credibility Problem. New York Times, 41.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Godfray, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Godfray, 2002; Orphanides & Reinberg, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Orphanides & Reinberg, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Michalet et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Research International
Abbreviation	Food Res. Int.
ISSN (print)	0963-9969
Scope	Food Science