How to format your references using the Grasas y Aceites citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Grasas y Aceites. 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

Buat V. 2015. Astrophysics: Dust-poor galaxies at early times. Nature 522, 422–423.

A journal article with 2 authors

Irion U, St Johnston D. 2007. bicoid RNA localization requires specific binding of an endosomal sorting complex. Nature 445, 554–558.

A journal article with 3 authors

Politi A, Matthews JCF, O’Brien JL. 2009. Shor’s quantum factoring algorithm on a photonic chip. Science 325, 1221.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lin Q-Y et al. 2018. Building superlattices from individual nanoparticles via template-confined DNA-mediated assembly. Science 359, 669–672.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stavetski EJ. 2009. Managing Hedge Fund Managers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bockstael NE. 2007. Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences: A Theoretical Guide to Empirical Models McConnell KE, (Ed.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Perotti L et al. 2015. Remote Sensing and Hydrogeological Methodologies for Irrigation Canal Water Losses Detection: The Naviglio di Bra Test Site (NW-Italy). in Lollino G et al., (Ed.) Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 3: River Basins, Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 19–22.

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 Grasas y Aceites.

Blog post

Davis J. 2016. McDonald’s Is Facing Increasing Pressure To Stop Using Meat And Milk From Animals Treated With Antibiotics. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mcdonalds-is-facing-increasing-pressure-to-stop-using-meat-and-milk-from-animals-treated-with-antibiotics/ [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. 2001. Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities in, and Alternatives for, Preboard Screening Security Operations, 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

Novak TS. 2017. Vital Signs of U.S. Osteopathic Medical Residency Programs Pivoting to Single Accreditation Standards. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Kleinfield NR, Fitzsimmons EG. 2015. Friends and Work Colleagues Remembering Lives Lost in the Metro-North Crash. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buat 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Buat 2015; Irion & St Johnston 2007).

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

Two authors: (Irion & St Johnston 2007)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Grasas y Aceites
Abbreviation	Grasas Aceites
ISSN (print)	0017-3495
ISSN (online)	1988-4214
Scope	Food Science Organic Chemistry