How to format your references using the Food Science and Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Science and Biotechnology (FSB). 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

Chawla DS. Badges of distinction. Nature. 526: 145–146 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Chemla YR and Ha T. Biophysics. Ultraslow relaxation of confined DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.). 345: 380–381 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

Sarbu T, Styranec T and Beckman EJ. Non-fluorous polymers with very high solubility in supercritical CO2 down to low pressures. Nature. 405: 165–168 (2000).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peters HP, Brossard D, de Cheveigné S, Dunwoody S, Kallfass M, Miller S and Tsuchida S. Science communication. Interactions with the mass media. Science (New York, N.Y.). 321: 204–205 (2008).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Katsilambros N, Diakoumopoulou E, Ioannidis I, Liatis S, Makrilakis K, Tentolouris N and Tsapogas P. Diabetes in Clinical Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2006).

An edited book

Gillispie CC. Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship. 2nd ed. 2014. Vol. 19. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2014).

A chapter in an edited book

Hou C, Chang S, Lin J and Song D. Pedicled Perforator Flaps. pp. 15–25. In: Surgical Atlas of Perforator Flaps: A Microsurgical Dissection Technique. Chang S., Lin J. and Song D.(eds.). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2015).

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 Science and Biotechnology.

Blog post

Luntz S. PETA Runs Deceptive Campaign About Autism. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/peta-runs-deceptive-campaign-about-autism/. Accessed October 30, 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. Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: Status, Plans, and Future Data Management Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2002).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Karmacharya B. Population Dynamics of Northern Cardinal and Carolina Wren in an Urban Forest Fragment: Safe Refuge or Ecological Trap? Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA (2015).

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

Crow K. Columbia Roils Neighbors Again, Now Over an Elementary School. New York Times: 144 (2001).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chawla, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Chawla, 2015; Chemla and Ha, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chemla and Ha, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Peters et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Science and Biotechnology
ISSN (print)	1226-7708
ISSN (online)	2092-6456
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