How to format your references using the Journal of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics. 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

Bohannon J. Scientific societies. Torture report prompts APA apology. Science. 2015 Jul;349(6245):221–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kiberstis P, Roberts L. Breast cancer. A race still unfinished. Introduction. Science. 2014 Mar;343(6178):1451.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferrand Y, Crump MP, Davis AP. A synthetic lectin analog for biomimetic disaccharide recognition. Science. 2007 Oct;318(5850):619–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Batista LFZ, Pech MF, Zhong FL, Nguyen HN, Xie KT, Zaug AJ, et al. Telomere shortening and loss of self-renewal in dyskeratosis congenita induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature. 2011 May;474(7351):399–402.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weller RB, Hunter HJA, Mann MW. Clinical Dermatology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Dehaen W, Bakulev VA, editors. Chemistry of 1,2,3-triazoles. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Munoz RT, Fox MD. Legal Aspects of Brain Death and Organ Donorship. In: Novitzky D, Cooper DKC, editors. The Brain-Dead Organ Donor: Pathophysiology and Management. New York, NY: Springer; 2013; pp 21–35.

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 Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics.

Blog post

Luntz S. Rosetta’s Comet Is Slowing Down [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Mar [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosettas-comet-slowing-down/

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. Small Business Innovation Research: Information on Awards Made by NIH and DoD in Fiscal Years 2001 through 2004. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen LL. Pacific Psychiatric Group: A Business Plan For a Direct Pay Outpatient Psychiatric Practice. 2017

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

Kelly S. There’s Nothing Like a Dame. New York Times. 1992 Nov;729.

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 Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics
Abbreviation	J. Nutrigenet. Nutrigenomics
ISSN (print)	1661-6499
ISSN (online)	1661-6758
Scope	Food Science Genetics Medicine (miscellaneous)