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

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

Tollestrup AV. Robert Rathbun Wilson (1914-2000). Nature 2000; 404: 350.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reichmanis E, Nalamasu O. Applied physics. Testing the limits for resists. Science 2002; 297: 349–350.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wara MW, Ravelo AC, Delaney ML. Permanent El Niño-like conditions during the Pliocene warm period. Science 2005; 309: 758–761.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tanovic A, Samel SA, Essen L-O, Marahiel MA. Crystal structure of the termination module of a nonribosomal peptide synthetase. Science 2008; 321: 659–663.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Biswas S, Ray P, Chakrabarti BK. Statistical Physics of Fracture, Breakdown, and Earthquake. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

Bertocchi M, Consigli G, Dempster MAH (eds.). Stochastic Optimization Methods in Finance and Energy: New Financial Products and Energy Market Strategies. 1st ed. Springer: New York, NY, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Ulubelen A, Kolak U. Chemical and Biological Studies with an Aconitum and a Delphinium Species. In: Şener B (ed). Innovations in Chemical Biology. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2009, pp 39–49.

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 Supplements.

Blog post

Andrew E. Drinking Coffee Could Help Protect Your DNA From Damage. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/drinking-coffee-could-help-protect-our-dna-damage/ (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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Atchison D. An Examination of Educational Equity: The Impact of Accountability and Finance Reform Policies. 2017.

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. The Gift Is a Subway Station, But Some Look It in the Mouth. New York Times. 2003; : 145.

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 Supplements
Abbreviation	Int. J. Obes. Suppl.
ISSN (print)	2046-2166
ISSN (online)	2046-2174
Scope