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

Faubert, J., 2013. Professional athletes have extraordinary skills for rapidly learning complex and neutral dynamic visual scenes. Sci. Rep. 3, 1154.

A journal article with 2 authors

Häkkinen, S., Rhines, P.B., 2004. Decline of subpolar North Atlantic circulation during the 1990s. Science 304, 555–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Catrysse, P.B., Liu, V., Fan, S., 2014. Complete power concentration into a single waveguide in large-scale waveguide array lenses. Sci. Rep. 4, 6635.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Plass, R., Last, J.A., Bartelt, N.C., Kellogg, G.L., 2001. Nanostructures. Self-assembled domain patterns. Nature 412, 875.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bishop, C.A., 2015. Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Shukla, S.K., Talpin, J.-P. (Eds.), 2010. Synthesis of Embedded Software: Frameworks and Methodologies for Correctness by Construction. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Nakagawa, H., 2011. Quality Control of Cultured Fish by Feed Supplements, in: Ceccaldi, H.-J., Dekeyser, I., Girault, M., Stora, G. (Eds.), Global Change: Mankind-Marine Environment Interactions: Proceedings of the 13th French-Japanese Oceanography Symposium. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 31–34.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. Mars Used To Have Earth-Like Levels Of Atmospheric Oxygen [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-used-to-have-earthlike-levels-of-atmospheric-oxygen/ (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, 1989. FAA Appropriation Issues (No. T-RCED-89-20). 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

Moody, V.J., 2012. Examining leadership styles and employee engagement in the public and private sectors (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Nagourney, A., Berger, J., 2010. Horror at Desert Ritual as Racer Flips Into Crowd. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Faubert, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Faubert, 2013; Häkkinen and Rhines, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Häkkinen and Rhines, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Plass et al., 2001)

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