How to format your references using the International Journal of Obesity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Obesity. 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

Abbott RJ. Evolution. Sex, sunflowers, and speciation. Science 2003; 301: 1189–1190.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richerson PJ, Boyd R. Migration: an engine for social change. Nature 2008; 456: 877.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lyons TW, Reinhard CT, Planavsky NJ. The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere. Nature 2014; 506: 307–315.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Monné M, Han L, Schwend T, Burendahl S, Jovine L. Crystal structure of the ZP-N domain of ZP3 reveals the core fold of animal egg coats. Nature 2008; 456: 653–657.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dye FJ. Dictionary of Stem Cells, Regenerative Medicine, and Translational Medicine. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, New Jersey, 2017.

An edited book

Wright KW, Spiegel PH, Thompson LS (eds.). Handbook of Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology. Springer: New York, NY, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Borchers H-J, Sen RN. Local Structure and Topology. In: Sen RN (ed). Mathematical Implications of Einstein-Weyl Causality. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006, pp 31–50.

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 International Journal of Obesity.

Blog post

Luntz S. Vera Rubin, Discoverer Of Dark Matter, Has Died Aged 88. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/space/vera-rubin-discoverer-of-dark-matter-has-died-aged-88/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Success Depends Upon Strong Management and Structured Approach. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Myers KE. The First Determination of the Proton’s Weak Charge Through Parity-Violating Asymmetry Measurements in Elastic e + p and e + Al Scattering. 2012.

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

Hodara S. Where Warhol and Chagall Adorn the Walls. New York Times. 2016; : WE10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Obesity
Abbreviation	Int. J. Obes. (Lond)
ISSN (print)	0307-0565
ISSN (online)	1476-5497
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Nutrition and Dietetics