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

Freeman, K.H., 2009. Journal club. A biogeochemist ponders muddy molecules and past climates. Nature 462, 701.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guillette, L.J., Jr, Iguchi, T., 2012. Ecology. Life in a contaminated world. Science 337, 1614–1615.

A journal article with 3 authors

Danielewicz, P., Lacey, R., Lynch, W.G., 2002. Determination of the equation of state of dense matter. Science 298, 1592–1596.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hussey, N.E., Abdel-Jawad, M., Carrington, A., Mackenzie, A.P., Balicas, L., 2003. A coherent three-dimensional Fermi surface in a high-transition-temperature superconductor. Nature 425, 814–817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Darling-Hammond, L., Meyerson, D., LaPointe, M., Terry Orr, M., Barber, M., Cohen, C., Dailey, K., Davis, S., Flessa, J., Murphy, J., Pecheone, R., Tushnet, N., 2009. Preparing Principals for a Changing World. Jossey-Bas, San Francisco, CA, USA.

An edited book

Dubinsky, Z., Stambler, N. (Eds.), 2011. Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Smyrnakis, M., Galla, T., 2015. Decentralized Optimisation of Resource Allocation in Disaster Management, in: Preston, J., Binner, J.M., Branicki, L., Galla, T., Jones, N., King, J., Kolokitha, M., Smyrnakis, M. (Eds.), City Evacuations: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 89–106.

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. Google Will Provide An Entire Country With Internet Using Balloons [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/google-will-power-internet-entire-city-using-balloons/ (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, 2013. VA Education Benefits: VA Needs to Improve Program Management and Provide More Timely Information to Students (No. GAO-13-338). 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

Ouellette, R.L., 2008. Referral development results of relationship tie- strength for small business goal -directed networking groups (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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. New Routine Becomes an Exercise in Bonding: Stretch, Share, Hug. New York Times B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Freeman, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Freeman, 2009; Guillette and Iguchi, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Guillette and Iguchi, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Hussey et al., 2003)

About the journal

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