How to format your references using the Nutrition Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nutrition Reviews. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Geanakoplos J. Recession Watch: End the obsession with interest. Nature. 2009;457(7232):963.

A journal article with 2 authors

Manukyan M, Singh PB. Epigenome rejuvenation: HP1β mobility as a measure of pluripotent and senescent chromatin ground states. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4789.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bielawski CW, Benitez D, Grubbs RH. An “endless” route to cyclic polymers. Science. 2002;297(5589):2041-2044.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Niwa H, Ogawa K, Shimosato D, Adachi K. A parallel circuit of LIF signalling pathways maintains pluripotency of mouse ES cells. Nature. 2009;460(7251):118-122.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Albalate A, Minker W. Semi-Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Ruan D, Chen G, Kerre EE, Wets G, eds. Intelligent Data Mining: Techniques and Applications. Vol 5. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Murray E. Multiple Influences on Children’s Transition to School. In: Perry B, Dockett S, Petriwskyj A, eds. Transitions to School - International Research, Policy and Practice. Springer Netherlands; 2014:47-59.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

Andrews R. The Atacama Desert Had Freshwater Lakes 9,000 Years Ago. IFLScience. December 19, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/atacama-desert-freshwater-lakes-9000-years-ago/

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. Technology Assessment: Internet of Things: Status and Implications of an Increasingly Connected World. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gilmore KD. With Their Heads in the Lion’s Mouth: Exploring the Novels of Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison through Social Contract Theory. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Cafe Borgia, Like Its Beat Heyday And Lucrezia Herself, Is History. New York Times. January 14, 2001:145.

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	Nutrition Reviews
Abbreviation	Nutr. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0029-6643
ISSN (online)	1753-4887
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Nutrition and Dietetics