How to format your references using the Journal of Eating Disorders citation style

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

1. Heffernan O. The dry facts. Nature. 2013;501:S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bercovici D, Ricard Y. Plate tectonics, damage and inheritance. Nature. 2014;508:513–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lee K, Zhang Y, Lee SE. Saccharomyces cerevisiae ATM orthologue suppresses break-induced chromosome translocations. Nature. 2008;454:543–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pridans C, Sauter KA, Baer K, Kissel H, Hume DA. CSF1R mutations in hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids are loss of function. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Raghavan V. Combustion Technology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Stein E, editor. The History of Theoretical, Material and Computational Mechanics - Mathematics Meets Mechanics and Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kotulski Z, Szczepiński W. Functions of Independent Random Variables. In: Szczepinski W, editor. Error Analysis with Applications in Engineering. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 91–105.

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 Eating Disorders.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Turning The Tables: Using Genetic Mutations To Fix Nature’s Problems. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Mexican Trucking Wages. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Nov. Report No.: RCED-94-78R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Myers RE. Moderating the effectiveness of messages to promote physical activity in type 2 diabetes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2010.

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

1. Kishkovsky S. Patriarch Aleksy II, Russian Orthodox Leader, Dies at 79. New York Times. 2008 Dec 6;A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Journal of Eating Disorders
Abbreviation	J. Eat. Disord.
ISSN (online)	2050-2974
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Behavioral Neuroscience Nutrition and Dietetics