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

Ho, David. 2005. Is China prepared for microbial threats? Nature 435: 421–422.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brookes, David, and Eugenia Etkina. 2010. SPORE series winner. Physical phenomena in real time. Science (New York, N.Y.) 330: 605–606.

A journal article with 3 authors

Altizer, Sonia, Rebecca Bartel, and Barbara A. Han. 2011. Animal migration and infectious disease risk. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331: 296–302.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tsujimoto, Tetsuhiro, Andreas Jeromin, Naoto Saitoh, John C. Roder, and Tomoyuki Takahashi. 2002. Neuronal calcium sensor 1 and activity-dependent facilitation of P/Q-type calcium currents at presynaptic nerve terminals. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295: 2276–2279.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zito, Ralph. 2011. Electrochemical Water Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Scholten, Henk J., Rob van de Velde, and Niels van Manen, ed. 2009. Geospatial Technology and the Role of Location in Science. 1st ed. Vol. 96. GeoJournal Library. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Böttcher, Albrecht, and Harold Widom. 2007. From Toeplitz Eigenvalues through Green’s Kernels to Higher-order Wirtinger-Sobolev Inequalities. In The Extended Field of Operator Theory, ed. Michael A. Dritschel, 73–87. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Basel: Birkhäuser.

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

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. Trio Of Monster Black Holes Discovered. IFLScience. IFLScience. June 26.

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. 2009. Emergency Communications: Vulnerabilities Remain and Limited Collaboration and Monitoring Hamper Federal Efforts. GAO-09-604. 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

Ugwu, Romanus Iroabuchi. 2012. Perceptions of elementary teachers from an urban school district in Southern California regarding their inquiry-based science instructional practices, assessment methods, and professional development. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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, Michael. 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton, on Tour of Western States, Chides G.O.P. for Investigating His Mother. New York Times, October 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ho 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Ho 2005; Brookes and Etkina 2010).

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

Two authors: (Brookes and Etkina 2010)
Three or more authors: (Tsujimoto et al. 2002)

About the journal

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