How to format your references using the Sustainable Production and Consumption citation style

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

Fidock, D.A., 2013. Microbiology. Eliminating malaria. Science 340, 1531–1533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xue, Y., Sherman, D.H., 2000. Alternative modular polyketide synthase expression controls macrolactone structure. Nature 403, 571–575.

A journal article with 3 authors

Papp, B., Pál, C., Hurst, L.D., 2003. Dosage sensitivity and the evolution of gene families in yeast. Nature 424, 194–197.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, L., Tu, F., Jin, L., Choy, W.C.H., Gao, Y., Wang, J., 2014. Polarity continuation and frustration in ZnSe nanospirals. Sci. Rep. 4, 7447.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mihajlovic-Madzarevic, V., 2010. Clinical Trials Audit Preparation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ceccaldi, H.-J., Dekeyser, I., Girault, M., Stora, G. (Eds.), 2011. Global Change: Mankind-Marine Environment Interactions: Proceedings of the 13th French-Japanese Oceanography Symposium. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Japkowicz, N., Shah, M., 2015. Performance Evaluation in Machine Learning, in: El Naqa, I., Li, R., Murphy, M.J. (Eds.), Machine Learning in Radiation Oncology: Theory and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–56.

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 Production and Consumption.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Believe It Or Not, This Isn’t A Snake. So What Is It? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/trust-me-not-snake-it-s-going-be-beautiful-butterfly/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1998. Federal Documents in Languages Other Than English Published and Distributed in Calendar Years 1995-1997 (No. GGD-98-99R). 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

Garza-Meza, L.E., 2013. Photography as a spiritual technique (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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, C., 2007. From Town’s First Female Officer to County’s First Female Police Chief. New York Times WE5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fidock, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Fidock, 2013; Xue and Sherman, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Xue and Sherman, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sustainable Production and Consumption
Abbreviation	Sustain. Prod. Consum.
ISSN (print)	2352-5509
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