How to format your references using the Sustainable Chemical Processes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sustainable Chemical 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

Offringa R (2006) Cancer. Cancer immunotherapy is more than a numbers game. Science 314:68–69

A journal article with 2 authors

Clavien P-A, Deiss J (2015) Leadership: ten tips for choosing an academic chair. Nature 519:286–287

A journal article with 3 authors

Manoharan VN, Elsesser MT, Pine DJ (2003) Dense packing and symmetry in small clusters of microspheres. Science 301:483–487

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Garcia V, Fusil S, Bouzehouane K, et al (2009) Giant tunnel electroresistance for non-destructive readout of ferroelectric states. Nature 460:81–84

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berthier J, Brakke KA, Berthier E (2016) Open Microfluidics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Brox P (2010) Fuzzy Logic-Based Algorithms for Video De-Interlacing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Panasyuk VV, Marukha VI, Sylovanyuk VP (2014) Injection Materials: Technological, Mechanical, and Service Characteristics. In: Marukha VI, Sylovanyuk VP (eds) Injection Technologies for the Repair of Damaged Concrete Structures. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 97–114

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 Sustainable Chemical Processes.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) 18-Foot-Long Burmese Python Found And Caught In Florida. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1973) Corrections and Pretrial Diversion Projects Funded by Grants From LEAA. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wolfe CJ (2012) Dimensions of Purchasing Social Responsibility in Sustainable Supply Chain Organizations. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Wagner J (2017) Extra Innings and Late-Game Twists. New York Times A2

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	Sustainable Chemical Processes
Abbreviation	Sustain. Chem. Process.
ISSN (online)	2043-7129
Scope