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

Judson HF (2001) Talking about the genome. Nature 409:769

A journal article with 2 authors

Gelman R, Gallistel CR (2004) Language and the origin of numerical concepts. Science 306:441–443

A journal article with 3 authors

Nawae W, Hannongbua S, Ruengjitchatchawalya M (2014) Defining the membrane disruption mechanism of kalata B1 via coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Sci Rep 4:3933

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li Q, Le May M, Lacroix N, Chen J (2013) Induction of Pax3 gene expression impedes cardiac differentiation. Sci Rep 3:2498

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mang T, Bobzin K, Bartels T (2010) Industrial Tribology. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Luan S (2011) Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mángano MG, Buatois LA, Wilson M, Droser M (2016) The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. In: Mángano MG, Buatois LA (eds) The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events: Volume 1: Precambrian and Paleozoic. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 127–156

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

Taub B (2016) Long Term Cocaine And Crystal Meth Use May Hinder Moral Judgement. 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 (2010) Commercial Aviation: Consumers Could Benefit from Better Information about Airline-Imposed Fees and Refundability of Government-Imposed Taxes and Fees. 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

Naqvi SZ (2017) Around the world in 15 bites: Applied perspectives on learning about food. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Lee L (2014) Greasing a Squeaky Wheel. New York Times D3

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