How to format your references using the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 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 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

Hilton, D., 2015. Donald Metcalf (1929-2014). Nature 517, 554.

A journal article with 2 authors

Akbalik, G., Schuman, E.M., 2014. Molecular biology. mRNA, live and unmasked. Science 343, 375–376.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burrone, J., O’Byrne, M., Murthy, V.N., 2002. Multiple forms of synaptic plasticity triggered by selective suppression of activity in individual neurons. Nature 420, 414–418.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hölker, F., Beare, D., Dörner, H., di Natale, A., Rätz, H.-J., Temming, A., Casey, J., 2007. Comment on “Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services.” Science 316, 1285; author reply 1285.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lévy, P., 2013. The Semantic Sphere 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Uslar, M., 2013. Standardization in Smart Grids: Introduction to IT-Related Methodologies, Architectures and Standards, Power Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Veronesi, G., 2015. Thoracic Surgery, in: Spinoglio, G. (Ed.), Robotic Surgery: Current Applications and New Trends, Updates in Surgery. Springer, Milano, pp. 29–39.

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 Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Two Surprisingly Modern Jurassic Mammals Found in China [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-surprisingly-modern-jurassic-mammals-found-china/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2010. For-Profit Schools: Large Schools and Schools that Specialize in Healthcare Are More Likely to Rely Heavily on Federal Student Aid (No. GAO-11-4). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mullis, J., 2009. The impact of the media on public opinion of the police (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. How Broken Must College Football Be to Fix It? New York Times B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Hilton, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Akbalik and Schuman, 2014; Hilton, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Akbalik and Schuman, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hölker et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
Abbreviation	J. Loss Prev. Process Ind.
ISSN (print)	0950-4230
Scope	Food Science General Chemical Engineering Management Science and Operations Research Energy Engineering and Power Technology Control and Systems Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality