How to format your references using the Separation and Purification Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Separation and Purification Technology. 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

[1]

T. de Lange, How telomeres solve the end-protection problem, Science 326 (2009) 948–952.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Sotomayor, K. Schulten, Single-molecule experiments in vitro and in silico, Science 316 (2007) 1144–1148.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Jiang, L. Zhao, D.E. Clapham, Genome-wide RNAi screen identifies Letm1 as a mitochondrial Ca2+/H+ antiporter, Science 326 (2009) 144–147.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.I. McNeil, R.J. Matear, R.M. Key, J.L. Bullister, J.L. Sarmiento, Anthropogenic CO2 uptake by the ocean based on the global chlorofluorocarbon data set, Science 299 (2003) 235–239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L.-Y. Chu, W. Wang, Microfluidics for Advanced Functional Polymeric Materials, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

P. Buttà, Mathematical Models of Viscous Friction, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.-M. Favre, D. Gašević, R. Lämmel, A. Winter, 4th International Workshop on Language Engineering (ATEM 2007), in: H. Giese (Ed.), Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MoDELS 2007, Nashville, TN, USA, September 30 - October 5, 2007, Reports and Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 28–33.

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 Separation and Purification Technology.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Happy Couples See Other People As Ugly, According To Study, IFLScience (2016).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Government Civilian Aircraft: Central Management Reforms Are Encouraging but Require Extensive Oversight, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.L. Layne, Military leadership: Encouraging enlisted personnel to participate in continuing education, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2008.

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

[1]

C. Isherwood, The Best Religion? A Believer Answers, New York Times (2016) C3.

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	Separation and Purification Technology
Abbreviation	Sep. Purif. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1383-5866
Scope	Filtration and Separation Analytical Chemistry