How to format your references using the Global Food Security citation style

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

Smaglik, P., 2004. On the road. Nature 427, 85.

A journal article with 2 authors

Arthur, R., Diamond, J., 2011. Geography. Understanding tribal fates. Science 334, 911–912.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kahn, S.E., Hull, R.L., Utzschneider, K.M., 2006. Mechanisms linking obesity to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Nature 444, 840–846.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mueller, C.A., Broz, P., Müller, S.A., Ringler, P., Erne-Brand, F., Sorg, I., Kuhn, M., Engel, A., Cornelis, G.R., 2005. The V-antigen of Yersinia forms a distinct structure at the tip of injectisome needles. Science 310, 674–676.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ursone, P., 2015. How to Calculate Options Prices and Their Greeks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Asabere-Ameyaw, A., Anamuah-Mensah, J., Dei, G.S., Raheem, K. (Eds.), 2014. Indigenist African Development and Related Issues: Towards a Transdisciplinary Perspective, Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Feinberg, E.A., 2012. Reduction of Discounted Continuous-Time MDPs with Unbounded Jump and Reward Rates to Discrete-Time Total-Reward MDPs, in: Hernández-Hernández, D., Minjárez-Sosa, J.A. (Eds.), Optimization, Control, and Applications of Stochastic Systems: In Honor of Onésimo Hernández-Lerma. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, pp. 77–97.

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 Global Food Security.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Scientists Levitate Nanodiamonds Using Lasers [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/levitating-luminous-nanodiamonds-lasers/ (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, 1995. Aviation Research: Perspectives on FAA’s Efforts to Develop New Technology (No. T-RCED-95-193). 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

Taylor, W.A., 2010. Every citizen a soldier: The U.S. Army’s campaign for universal military training following World War II (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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, D., 1995. IN SHORT: FICTION. New York Times 720.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Arthur and Diamond, 2011; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Arthur and Diamond, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Mueller et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Food Security
Abbreviation	Glob. Food Sec.
ISSN (print)	2211-9124
Scope	Food Science Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Ecology Safety Research