How to format your references using the Journal of Ethnic Foods citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ethnic Foods. 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]

Plotkin JB. Cell biology. The lives of proteins. Science 2011;331:683–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kanan MW, Nocera DG. In situ formation of an oxygen-evolving catalyst in neutral water containing phosphate and Co2+. Science 2008;321:1072–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fuller PM, Lu J, Saper CB. Differential rescue of light- and food-entrainable circadian rhythms. Science 2008;320:1074–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Laurberg M, Asahara H, Korostelev A, Zhu J, Trakhanov S, Noller HF. Structural basis for translation termination on the 70S ribosome. Nature 2008;454:852–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Barbosa P, Berry DL, Kary CS. Insect Histology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Vilar R, editor. Recognition of Anions. vol. 129. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gao F, Xing C, Wang G. Channel Estimation for PLNC Under Frequency Selective Fading Scenario. In: Xing C, Wang G, editors. Channel Estimation for Physical Layer Network Coding Systems, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 35–57.

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 Ethnic Foods.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. We Might Be Witnessing The Birth Of An Ice Giant Planet. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-might-be-witnessing-the-birth-of-an-ice-giant-planet/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Issues Concerning the Future Operation of the Space Transportation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Joppy DA. Principal Socialization in One Virginia School District: A Phenomenological Investigation. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2013.

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]

Vlasic B, Chapman MM. U.A.W. Plans to Re-engage Fiat Chrysler. New York Times 2015:B7.

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 Ethnic Foods
Abbreviation	J. Ethn. Foods
ISSN (print)	2352-6181
Scope