How to format your references using the Sugar Tech citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sugar Tech. 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

Bignami, Giovanni F. 2008. Astronomy. Gamma rays and neutron stars. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322: 1193–1194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pahlevan, Kaveh, and Alessandro Morbidelli. 2015. Collisionless encounters and the origin of the lunar inclination. Nature 527: 492–494.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halpern, Benjamin S., Karl Cottenie, and Bernardo R. Broitman. 2006. Strong top-down control in southern California kelp forest ecosystems. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 1230–1232.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kato, Hiroaki, Kosuke Okazaki, Tetsushi Iida, Jun-Ichi Nakayama, Yota Murakami, and Takeshi Urano. 2013. Spt6 prevents transcription-coupled loss of posttranslationally modified histone H3. Scientific reports 3: 2186.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiens, John A. 2016. Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lewis, Joseph R. 2009. AdvancED CSS. Edited by Meitar Moscovitz. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Paulhamus, Barton, Alison Ebaugh, C. C. Boylls, Nathan Bos, Sandy Hider, and Stephen Giguere. 2012. Crowdsourced Cyber Defense: Lessons from a Large-Scale, Game-Based Approach to Threat Identification on a Live Network. In Social Computing, Behavioral - Cultural Modeling and Prediction: 5th International Conference, SBP 2012, College Park, MD, USA, April 3-5, 2012. Proceedings, ed. Shanchieh Jay Yang, Ariel M. Greenberg, and Mica Endsley, 35–42. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Sugar Tech.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2017. Why Do LSD Trips Last So Long? IFLScience. IFLScience. January 30.

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. 1995. Education and Employment Issue Area Plan--Fiscal Years 1995-96. IAP-95-32. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gleason, Russell. 2013. Nanosphere lithography applied to magnetic thin films. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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, David. 1998. Fear and Loathing in San Juan. New York Times, November 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bignami 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bignami 2008; Pahlevan and Morbidelli 2015).

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

Two authors: (Pahlevan and Morbidelli 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kato et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sugar Tech
Abbreviation	Sugar Tech
ISSN (print)	0972-1525
ISSN (online)	0974-0740
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science