How to format your references using the Process Safety and Environmental Protection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 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

Barnes, N., 2010. Publish your computer code: it is good enough. Nature 467, 753.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fairn, G.D., Grinstein, S., 2012. Cell biology. Precursor or charge supplier? Science 337, 653–654.

A journal article with 3 authors

Willner, A.E., Wang, J., Huang, H., 2012. Applied physics. A different angle on light communications. Science 337, 655–656.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jaworski, T., Dewachter, I., Lechat, B., Gees, M., Kremer, A., Demedts, D., Borghgraef, P., Devijver, H., Kügler, S., Patel, S., Woodgett, J.R., Van Leuven, F., 2011. GSK-3α/β kinases and amyloid production in vivo. Nature 480, E4-5; discussion E6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heller, D., 2011. Hairspray. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Charney, N. (Ed.), 2016. Art Crime: Terrorists, Tomb Raiders, Forgers and Thieves. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Miller, T., Pedell, S., Sterling, L., Lu, B., 2011. Engaging Stakeholders with Agent-Oriented Requirements Modelling, in: Weyns, D., Gleizes, M.-P. (Eds.), Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XI: 11th International Workshop, AOSE 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 10-11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 62–78.

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 Process Safety and Environmental Protection.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Weight Loss Drug Made From War Chemicals Gets Deadly New Reach Online [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1996. Energy Research: Recovery of Federal Investment in Technology Development Projects (No. T-RCED-96-225). 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

Lemay, M., 2009. Understanding the mechanism of panel attrition (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Apuzzo, M., Schmidt, M.S., 2017. White House Tries Civility With Mueller. 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 (Barnes, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Barnes, 2010; Fairn and Grinstein, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Fairn and Grinstein, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Jaworski et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Process Safety and Environmental Protection
Abbreviation	Process Saf. Environ. Prot.
ISSN (print)	0957-5820
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering