How to format your references using the Fuel Processing Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fuel Processing Technology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

[1]

H.M. Alexander, Ecology: Shared ancestry predicts disease levels, Nature 520 (2015) 446–447.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Xia, J.-P. Gong, Impact of recombinant globular adiponectin on early warm ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat bile duct after liver transplantation, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6426.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.E. Carazo-Salas, C. Antony, P. Nurse, The kinesin Klp2 mediates polarization of interphase microtubules in fission yeast, Science 309 (2005) 297–300.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Gouridis, S. Karamanou, I. Gelis, C.G. Kalodimos, A. Economou, Signal peptides are allosteric activators of the protein translocase, Nature 462 (2009) 363–367.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Ginena, A. Hamid, Foundations of Sharī‘ah Governance of Islamic Banks, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

D. Bošnački, S. Edelkamp, eds., Model Checking Software: 14th International SPIN Workshop, Berlin, Germany, July 1-3, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B.B. İskender, N. Özdemir, A.D. Karaoglan, Parameter Optimization of Fractional Order PI λ D μ Controller Using Response Surface Methodology, in: J.A.T. Machado, D. Baleanu, A.C.J. Luo (Eds.), Discontinuity and Complexity in Nonlinear Physical Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 91–105.

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 Fuel Processing Technology.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Mysterious Ancient Human Migration Back To Africa More Significant Than Previously Thought, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mysterious-ancient-human-migration-back-africa-more-significant-previously-thought-emb/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Polar Weather Satellites: NOAA Is Working to Ensure Continuity but Needs to Quickly Address Information Security Weaknesses and Future Program Uncertainties, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.F. De La Cruz, A program evaluation of a literacy initiative for students with moderate to severe disabilities, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2009.

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

[1]

J.R. Oestreich, Bearing Witness to a Massacre, New York Times (2017) C4.

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	Fuel Processing Technology
Abbreviation	Fuel Process. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0378-3820
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Energy Engineering and Power Technology Fuel Technology