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

Davé, R., 2015. Computational astrophysics: Monstrous galaxies unmasked. Nature 525, 465–466.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burtsev, M., Turchin, P., 2006. Evolution of cooperative strategies from first principles. Nature 440, 1041–1044.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halpern, B.S., Cottenie, K., Broitman, B.R., 2006. Strong top-down control in southern California kelp forest ecosystems. Science 312, 1230–1232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yan, H., Zhang, X., Shen, Z., Seeman, N.C., 2002. A robust DNA mechanical device controlled by hybridization topology. Nature 415, 62–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pozzilli, P., Lenzi, A., Clarke, B.L., Young, W.F., Jr, 2013. Imaging in Endocrinology. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Aubin, J.-P., 2011. Viability Theory: New Directions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramasubramanian, K., Sriram, M.S., 2011. Solar eclipse, in: Sriram, M.S. (Ed.), Tantrasaṅgraha of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī. Springer, London, pp. 305–356.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. Watch Four Exoplanets Orbit Their Star In This Amazing Video [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-four-exoplanets-orbit-their-star-in-this-amazing-video/ (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, 2001. Proposed Alliance Between American Airlines and British Airways Raises Competition Concerns and Public Interest Issues (No. GAO-02-293R). 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

Tom, D.M., 2012. Impact on achievement with ST math after school instruction (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., 2011. Underdog’s Feat Is Inspiration for Cricket’s Dreamers. New York Times SP7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davé, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Burtsev and Turchin, 2006; Davé, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Burtsev and Turchin, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Yan et al., 2002)

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