How to format your references using the Nutrition Research Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nutrition Research Reviews (NRR). 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

Rey FA. Dengue virus: two hosts, two structures. Nature. 2013 May 23;497(7450):443–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Perez JE, Bashirullah AK. Bureaucracy strangles Latin American research. Nature. 2000 May 18;405(6784):273.

A journal article with 3 authors

Papp B, Pál C, Hurst LD. Metabolic network analysis of the causes and evolution of enzyme dispensability in yeast. Nature. 2004 Jun 10;429(6992):661–4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ding S, Ye R, Zhang D, et al. Anti-folate combination therapies and their effect on the development of drug resistance in Plasmodium vivax. Sci. Rep. 2013 Jan 7;3:1008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zwecher MJ. Retirement Portfolios. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Cuntz H, Remme MWH, Torben-Nielsen B, editors. The Computing Dendrite: From Structure to Function. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Dechesne F, Dignum V, Tan Y-H. Understanding Compliance Differences between Legal and Social Norms: The Case of Smoking Ban. In: Dechesne F, Hattori H, Mors AT, et al., editors. Advanced Agent Technology: AAMAS 2011 Workshops, AMPLE, AOSE, ARMS, DOCM3AS, ITMAS, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 50–64.

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 Nutrition Research Reviews.

Blog post

Fang J. Mini Human Stomachs Grown in the Lab [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mini-human-stomachs-grown-lab/

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. Air Traffic Control: Continuing Delays Anticipated for the Advanced Automation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jul. Report No.: IMTEC-90-63.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blalock JM. The Links at St Andrews, Scotland A phenomenological hermeneutic exploration of golf’s primordial place [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2014.

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

Kenigsberg B. Naughty Boy: Mommy Issues Explain a Lot. New York Times. 2016 Nov 22;C1.

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	Nutrition Research Reviews
ISSN (print)	0954-4224
ISSN (online)	1475-2700
Scope