How to format your references using the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 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

Levi, M.A., 2004. Dreaming of clean nukes. Nature 428, 892.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klausner, R., Alonso, P., 2004. An attack on all fronts. Nature 430, 930–931.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conard, N.J., Grootes, P.M., Smith, F.H., 2004. Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd. Nature 430, 198–201.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yasunaga, M., Furuta, M., Ogata, K., Koga, Y., Yamamoto, Y., Takigahira, M., Matsumura, Y., 2013. The significance of microscopic mass spectrometry with high resolution in the visualisation of drug distribution. Sci. Rep. 3, 3050.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunter, D.A., 2009. A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Azimova, S.S., Vinogradova, V.I. (Eds.), 2013. Natural Compounds: Flavonoids. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Davison, C., de Franchis, R., Iannuzzi, F., 2014. Procedure for Small Bowel Video Capsule Endoscopy, in: Keuchel, M., Hagenmüller, F., Tajiri, H. (Eds.), Video Capsule Endoscopy: A Reference Guide and Atlas. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 21–30.

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 Food Composition and Analysis.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. Discovery Of Cosmic Web Feeding A Protogalaxy Could Reveal How Galaxies Form [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/mystery-how-galaxies-formed-possibly-solved-discovery-cosmic-web-feeding-protogalaxy/ (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, 1987. Youth Job Training: Problems Measuring Attainment of Employment Competencies (No. HRD-87-33). 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

Tengco, M.A., 2017. Quality Home Care: Providing Personal Care and Homemaking Services for Seniors in the Community (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

Walsh, M.W., 2016. Lew Visits Puerto Rico and Urges Federal Help. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Levi, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Klausner and Alonso, 2004; Levi, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Klausner and Alonso, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Yasunaga et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
Abbreviation	J. Food Compost. Anal.
ISSN (print)	0889-1575
Scope	Food Science