How to format your references using the Obesity Facts citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Obesity Facts. 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

Service RF. American Chemical Society meeting. Science invades the Magic Kingdom. Science. 2002 Apr;296(5567):462–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Drenkard E, Ausubel FM. Pseudomonas biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance are linked to phenotypic variation. Nature. 2002 Apr;416(6882):740–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCloskey J, Nalbant SS, Steacy S. Indonesian earthquake: earthquake risk from co-seismic stress. Nature. 2005 Mar;434(7031):291.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Winklbauer R, Medina A, Swain RK, Steinbeisser H. Frizzled-7 signalling controls tissue separation during Xenopus gastrulation. Nature. 2001 Oct;413(6858):856–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Svensson H. Schrägkabelbrücken. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

Das A. Socio-Economic Analysis of Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in West Bengal. 1st ed. 2016. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Pizer SM, Jeong J-Y, Broadhurst RE, Ho S, Stough J. Deep Structure of Images in Populations Via Geometric Models in Populations. In: Fogh Olsen O, Florack L, Kuijper A, editors. Deep Structure, Singularities, and Computer Vision: First International Workshop, DSSCV 2005, Maastricht, The Netherlands, June 9-10, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005; pp 49–59.

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 Obesity Facts.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why Is Oil And Gas Activity Causing Earthquakes? And Can We Reduce The Risk? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-oil-and-gas-activity-causing-earthquakes-and-can-we-reduce-risk/

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 Businesses and Innovation, Small Business Research Conference. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brown CP. Range vs. register: An important distinction in choral repertoire for the adolescent male. 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

Feeney K. Cupcakes a Chicken Can Love. New York Times. 2007 Nov;NJ12.

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	Obesity Facts
Abbreviation	Obes. Facts
ISSN (print)	1662-4025
ISSN (online)	1662-4033
Scope	Physiology (medical) Health(social science)