How to format your references using the Processes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Processes. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Rutishauser, U. Gerald Edelman (1929-2014). Nature 2014, 510, 474.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lujambio, A.; Lowe, S.W. The Microcosmos of Cancer. Nature 2012, 482, 347–355.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmidt, A.R.; Dörfelt, H.; Perrichot, V. Carnivorous Fungi from Cretaceous Amber. Science 2007, 318, 1743.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhu, M.; Yu, X.; Wang, W.; Zhao, W.; Jia, L. A Primitive Fish Provides Key Characters Bearing on Deep Osteichthyan Phylogeny. Nature 2006, 441, 77–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radcliff, P.B. Modern Spain; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2017; ISBN 9781119406853.

An edited book

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 13th International Conference, FASE 2010, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, March 20-28, 2010. Proceedings; Rosenblum, D.S., Taentzer, G., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; Vol. 6013; ISBN 9783642120282.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, J.-B.; Sells, P.; Yang, J. A Computational Implementation of Internally Headed Relative Clause Constructions. In Advances in Natural Language Processing: 5th International Conference on NLP, FinTAL 2006 Turku, Finland, August 23-25, 2006 Proceedings; Salakoski, T., Ginter, F., Pyysalo, S., Pahikkala, T., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; pp. 24–31 ISBN 9783540373346.

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 Processes.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Drone Captures Amazing Footage Of A Tornado Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-tornado-kansas-drones-point-view/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Scientific Research: Continued Vigilance Critical to Protecting Human Subjects; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shrank, S.M. ShareOne: An IOS Resource Application for Caseworkers: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Pilon, M. Coaching The Kayakers On 2 Wheels. New York Times 2012, B17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Processes
Abbreviation	Processes (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2227-9717
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