How to format your references using the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics (JHND). 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

Barnaby W. Do nations go to war over water? Nature 2009; 458: (7236)282–283.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lippincott-Schwartz J, Patterson GH. Development and use of fluorescent protein markers in living cells. Science 2003; 300: (5616)87–91.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rauzi M, Lenne P-F, Lecuit T. Planar polarized actomyosin contractile flows control epithelial junction remodelling. Nature 2010; 468: (7327)1110–1114.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Benenson Y, Gil B, Ben-Dor U et al. An autonomous molecular computer for logical control of gene expression. Nature 2004; 429: (6990)423–429.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Binnie C. Linux Server Security. Indianapolis, IN, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Kuhn M. Applied Predictive Modeling. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Dixon JC. Aridic Soils, Patterned Ground, and Desert Pavements. In: Parsons AJ, Abrahams AD (eds). Geomorphology of Desert Environments. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009, pp 101–122.

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 Human Nutrition and Dietetics.

Blog post

Hale T. If You’re A Parent, You Need To Read This Letter. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/if-youre-a-parent-you-need-to-read-this-letter/ (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. Joint Strike Fighter: Strong Risk Management Essential as Program Enters Most Challenging Phase. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coleman KM. Parent Involvement in the Promotion of Healthy Outcomes for Young Girls: A Grant Writing Project. 2015.

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

Crow K. The Nonpaying Audience Withholds Its Applause. New York Times. 2002; 144.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Human Nutrition and Dietetics
ISSN (print)	0952-3871
ISSN (online)	1365-277X
Scope