How to format your references using the Journal of Cereal Science citation style

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

Halloran, J., 2006. Materials science. Making better ceramic composites with ice. Science 311, 479–480.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fialko, Y., Pearse, J., 2012. Sombrero uplift above the Altiplano-Puna Magma Body: evidence of a ballooning mid-crustal diapir. Science 338, 250–252.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fromm, M., Nedoluha, G., Charvát, Z., 2013. Comment on “Large volcanic aerosol load in the stratosphere linked to Asian monsoon transport.” Science 339, 647.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shi, J., Krishnamoorthy, G., Yang, Y., Hu, L., Chaturvedi, N., Harilal, D., Qin, J., Cui, J., 2002. Mechanism of magnesium activation of calcium-activated potassium channels. Nature 418, 876–880.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fabozzi, F.J., 2009. Institutional Investment Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Park, J.J. (jong H., Chao, H.-C., Arabnia, H., Yen, N.Y. (Eds.), 2016. Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering: Future Information Technology Volume 2, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Simsa, J., Bryant, R., Gibson, G., Hickey, J., 2013. Scalable Dynamic Partial Order Reduction, in: Qadeer, S., Tasiran, S. (Eds.), Runtime Verification: Third International Conference, RV 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, September 25-28, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 19–34.

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 Journal of Cereal Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Jetpack Will Help Runners Hit 4-Minute Miles [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/jetpack-aims-help-soldiers-hit-4-minute-miles/ (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, 1990. FAA Procurement: Major Data-Processing Contract Should Not Be Awarded (No. IMTEC-90-38). 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

Al-Qazzaz, A.L., 2013. A kinetic study of the radiolytic degradation of phthalates in aqueous solutions (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Wines, M., Bidgood, J., 2014. Waters Warm, and Cod Catch Ebbs in Maine. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Halloran, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Fialko and Pearse, 2012; Halloran, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Fialko and Pearse, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Shi et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cereal Science
Abbreviation	J. Cereal Sci.
ISSN (print)	0733-5210
Scope	Food Science Biochemistry