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

Ballschmiter, K., 2002. Atmospheric chemistry. A marine source for alkyl nitrates. Science 297, 1127–1128.

A journal article with 2 authors

Valbuzzi, A., Yanofsky, C., 2001. Inhibition of the B. subtilis regulatory protein TRAP by the TRAP-inhibitory protein, AT. Science 293, 2057–2059.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fan, Y., Li, H., Miguez-Macho, G., 2013. Global patterns of groundwater table depth. Science 339, 940–943.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Morito, D., Nishikawa, K., Hoseki, J., Kitamura, A., Kotani, Y., Kiso, K., Kinjo, M., Fujiyoshi, Y., Nagata, K., 2014. Moyamoya disease-associated protein mysterin/RNF213 is a novel AAA+ ATPase, which dynamically changes its oligomeric state. Sci. Rep. 4, 4442.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ko, C.J., Barr, R.J., 2011. Dermatopathology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Cheung, N.-K.V., Cohn, S.L. (Eds.), 2005. Neuroblastoma, Pediatric Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Marques, S.P.C., Creus, G.J., 2012. Laplace Transform Solutions, in: Creus, G.J. (Ed.), Computational Viscoelasticity, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 37–49.

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. 139 New Species Discovered In Mekong, Including Thorny Tree Frog And “Dementor” Wasp [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/139-new-species-discovered-mekong-including-thorny-tree-frog-and-dementor-wasp/ (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, 1990. Space Projects: Improvements Needed in Selecting Future Projects for Private Financing (No. NSIAD-90-147). 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

Kalafut, A.J., 2010. Proactive cyberfraud detection through infrastructure analysis (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE TRANSITION: The President-Elect; Despite Some Signs of Recovery, Clinton Points to Economic Perils. 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 (Ballschmiter, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ballschmiter, 2002; Valbuzzi and Yanofsky, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Valbuzzi and Yanofsky, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Morito et al., 2014)

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