How to format your references using the Journal of Food Science and Technology citation style

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

Herrmann M (2014) Plasma physics: A promising advance in nuclear fusion. Nature 506:302–303

A journal article with 2 authors

Madin JS, Connolly SR (2006) Ecological consequences of major hydrodynamic disturbances on coral reefs. Nature 444:477–480

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang M, Vijayraghavan S, Goldman-Rakic PS (2004) Selective D2 receptor actions on the functional circuitry of working memory. Science 303:853–856

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pastor WA, Pape UJ, Huang Y, et al (2011) Genome-wide mapping of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in embryonic stem cells. Nature 473:394–397

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Suárez A (2008) Analysis and Design of Autonomous Microwave Circuits. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Duan H (2014) Bio-inspired Computation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Sekine Y (2006) Informed Consent. In: Sugano K, Yamamoto H, Kita H (eds) Double-Balloon Endoscopy: Theory and Practice. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 15–18

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 Science and Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) We may Finally Know why a Flu Vaccine Triggered Narcolepsy. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/we-may-finally-know-why-flu-vaccine-triggered-narcolepsy/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1984) [Comments on Proposed MOU To Govern GAO Disclosure of FCC Documents]. 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

Maddirala RR (2010) Secure file transfers using mobile device. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Saslow L (2007) Jones Inlet to Be Dredged Despite Money Dispute. New York Times LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Herrmann 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Madin and Connolly 2006; Herrmann 2014).

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

Two authors: (Madin and Connolly 2006)
Three or more authors: (Pastor et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Food Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Food Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0022-1155
ISSN (online)	0975-8402
Scope	Food Science