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

Halavais A (2011) Social science: Open up online research. Nature 480:174–175

A journal article with 2 authors

Barker S, Elderfield H (2002) Foraminiferal calcification response to glacial-interglacial changes in atmospheric CO2. Science 297:833–836

A journal article with 3 authors

Zehn D, Lee SY, Bevan MJ (2009) Complete but curtailed T-cell response to very low-affinity antigen. Nature 458:211–214

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sikora D, Rocheleau L, Brown EG, Pelchat M (2014) Deep sequencing reveals the eight facets of the influenza A/HongKong/1/1968 (H3N2) virus cap-snatching process. Sci Rep 4:6181

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Segal HP (2012) Utopias. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Chishti AS, Alam S, Kiessling SG (2014) Kidney and Urinary Tract Diseases in the Newborn. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Schulz H, Görling A (2014) Toward a Comprehensive Treatment of Temperature in Electronic Structure Calculations: Non-zero-Temperature Hartree-Fock and Exact-Exchange Kohn-Sham Methods. In: Graziani F, Desjarlais MP, Redmer R, Trickey SB (eds) Frontiers and Challenges in Warm Dense Matter. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 87–121

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 (2014) Caloric Restriction Increases Lifespan In Monkeys. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/caloric-restriction-increases-lifespan-monkeys/. 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 (2009) Aviation Weather: FAA and the National Weather Service Are Considering Plans to Consolidate Weather Service Offices, But Face Significant Challenges. 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

Norman CL (2015) Perceptions of non-traditional programs within Missouri school districts. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Shear MD, Plumer B (2017) Trump Has Choice to Make Between Science and His Base. New York Times A14

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

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