How to format your references using the Journal of Food Protection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Food Protection (JFP). 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

Holland, P. 2004. Developmental biology. The ups and downs of a sea anemone. Science 304:1255–1256.

A journal article with 2 authors

Veillette, A., and D. Davidson. 2014. Immunology: When lymphocytes run out of steam. Nature 510:222–223.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shimojo, S., Y. Kamitani, and S. Nishida. 2001. Afterimage of perceptually filled-in surface. Science 293:1677–1680.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Munch, E., M. E. Launey, D. H. Alsem, E. Saiz, A. P. Tomsia, and R. O. Ritchie. 2008. Tough, bio-inspired hybrid materials. Science 322:1516–1520.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Groves, E. 2009. The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Purchase, D. 2016. Fungal Applications in Sustainable Environmental Biotechnology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Garcia, A., M. T. Linaza, A. Gutierrez, E. Garcia, and I. Ornes. 2016. Generation of Gamified Mobile Experiences by DMOs, p. 45–57. In A. Inversini, and R. Schegg (eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2016: Proceedings of the International Conference in Bilbao, Spain, February 2-5, 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Protection.

Blog post

Taub, B. 2016. Iowa Democratic Party Becomes First In US To Back Legalizing All Drugs. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/iowa-democratic-party-becomes-first-us-back-legalizing-all-drugs/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. 2012. Higher Education: Improved Tax Information Could Help Pay for College. GAO-12-863T. 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

Liu, C. C. 2012. Charles T. Griffes’s “Roman Sketches”: A performer’s guide. 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

(nyt), S. K. 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Bombs Injure 8 In Area Near Chechnya. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Food Protection
Abbreviation	J. Food Prot.
ISSN (print)	0362-028X
ISSN (online)	1944-9097
Scope	Food Science Microbiology