Dear editage team,
Very interesting answer. All you said makes perfectly. But, all this is not a sufficient explanation for the fact that sometimes the author instructions show a completely different reference style in comaprison to the one that is actually used.
One example, the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. Here the author instructions with the reference samples:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-277X/homepage/ForAuthors.html
Here they explicitly tell that the reference style has changed in October 2014.
Here the given reference samples:
Journal articles
1. Steele JR, Meskell RJ, Foy J et al. Determining the osmolality of over-concentrated and supplemented infant formulas. J.Hum Nutr Diet. 2013;26:32-37.
2. Nelson M, Margetts BM & Black A. Letter to the Editor. J Hum Nutr Diet. 1993;6: 79-81.
3. Dixon N. Writing for publication- a guide for new authors. Int J Qual Health Care. 2001;13: 417-421.
And here a actual used reference from an published article:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jhn.12524/full
Roos E, Prattala R, Lahelma E, et al. (1996) Modern and healthy?: Socioeconomic differences in the quality of diet. Eur J Clin Nutr 50, 753–760.
The difference could not be much bigger, and this lasts obciously since Oct 2014.
My intention is not to criticise the journal of Wiley or someone else.
I just want to understand how this can stay unnoticed for three years. This can only mean that
the way the papers and the references are submitted are totally irrelevant for the procuction process of the articles and do not effect the production workflow.
If it would cause extra effort and time, this would cause extra costs and thus surely would be be changed in order to avoid the need to reformatt the references.
So the production of the articles and the typesetting of the references must be unaffected by the way how the references are submitted by the authors.
Maybe you can tell me once again some details about this, I would appreciate this a lot and would be very thankful!
Best wishes
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