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

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

Toulouse G. Community groups could show Unesco the way. Nature 2000;405:394.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yan Y, Pennycook SJ. Atomic structure of the quasicrystal Al72Ni20Co8. Nature 2000;403:266–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Skourti-Stathaki K, Kamieniarz-Gdula K, Proudfoot NJ. R-loops induce repressive chromatin marks over mammalian gene terminators. Nature 2014;516:436–9.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lo S-T, Chen KY, Lin S-D, Wu J-Y, Lin TL, Yeh MR, Chen T-M, Liang C-T. Controllable disorder in a hybrid nanoelectronic system: realization of a superconducting diode. Sci Rep 2013;3:2274.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alacoque JC. Direct Eigen Control for Induction Machines and Synchronous Motors. Chichester, UK: A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Webster HD. Gliogenesis: Historical Perspectives, 1839–1985. Åström KE, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. VII, 109 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Paul DJ. Quantum Cascade Lasers. In: Perenzoni M, Paul DJ, editors. Physics and Applications of Terahertz Radiation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 103–21.

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 Nutrition.

Blog post

Luntz S. Psychopaths’ Brains Respond Abnormally To Punishment [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/psychopaths-brains-respond-abnormally-punishment/

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. Electronic Health Information: HHS Needs to Strengthen Security and Privacy Guidance and Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Aug. Report No.: GAO-16-771.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Miller NY. Nutrition education series for female club soccer players 14 to 18 years of age [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Gates A. One Despicable, Another Disdainful. New York Times. 2013;CT10.

In-text citations

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

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 Nutrition
Abbreviation	J. Nutr.
ISSN (print)	0022-3166
ISSN (online)	1541-6100
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Nutrition and Dietetics