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

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

Ledford H. Beyond the Triangle. Nature 452:908–909 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

Surani A and Smith J. Obituary: Anne McLaren (1927-2007). Nature 448:764–765 (2007).

A journal article with 3 authors

Griffin AS, West SA, and Buckling A. Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria. Nature 430:1024–1027 (2004).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nizam S, Verma S, Borah NN, Gazara RK, and Verma PK. Comprehensive genome-wide analysis reveals different classes of enigmatic old yellow enzyme in fungi. Sci Rep 4:4013 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hannam J. What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Marcus A (ed.). Design, User Experience, and Usability: Novel User Experiences: 5th International Conference, DUXU 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, Canada, July 17–22, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Urban S. Rhomboid Intramembrane Serine Proteases. In: Hooper NM, Lendeckel U, eds. Intramembrane-Cleaving Proteases (I-CLiPs) Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; p. 51–77 2007.

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 the Science of Food and Agriculture.

Blog post

Andrew E. When Exploding Whales Goes Horribly Wrong. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/when-exploding-whales-goes-horribly-wrong/ [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. School-Age Children: Poverty and Diversity Challenge Schools Nationwide. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 MarReport No.: T-HEHS-94-125.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Holmgren JL. Instructor responses to rhetorical dissent: Student perceptions of justice and classroom outcomes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Santora M and Baker AL. East Village Blast and Fire Fell Buildings and Hurt at Least 19. New York Times :A1 (2015).

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 the Science of Food and Agriculture
ISSN (print)	0022-5142
ISSN (online)	1097-0010
Scope