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]

J.P. Di Santo, Immunology. A guardian of T cell fate, Science 329 (2010) 44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.M. Swetter, A.C. Geller, Perspective: catch melanoma early, Nature 515 (2014) S117.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.S. Hibbett, L.B. Gilbert, M.J. Donoghue, Evolutionary instability of ectomycorrhizal symbioses in basidiomycetes, Nature 407 (2000) 506–508.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Thomas, Y. Bozec, K. Elkalay, H.J.W. de Baar, Enhanced open ocean storage of CO2 from shelf sea pumping, Science 304 (2004) 1005–1008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Joseph, Doing Physics with Scientific Notebook, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

K. Marti, Y. Ermoliev, M. Makowski, eds., Coping with Uncertainty: Robust Solutions, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Zaman, M. Chowdhury, Multimedia Stream Rate Control over MANET Based on Router Feedback, in: R. Lee (Ed.), Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing 2012, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 53–68.

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]

J. O`Callaghan, No, The EM Drive Will Not Lead To Warp Travel Any Time Soon, IFLScience (2015).

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, Information Technology: DOD Needs to Improve Process for Ensuring Interoperability of Telecommunications Switches, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G.L. Greene, An Analysis of the Comparison between Classroom Grades Earned with a Standards-Based Grading System and Grade-Level Assessment Scores as Measured by the Missouri Assessment Program, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2015.

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]

M. Paulson, The Flea Makes a Big Move in TriBeCa, New York Times (2017) C8.

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