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

May, R.M., 2004. Uses and abuses of mathematics in biology. Science 303, 790–793.

A journal article with 2 authors

Prospero, J.M., Lamb, P.J., 2003. African droughts and dust transport to the Caribbean: climate change implications. Science 302, 1024–1027.

A journal article with 3 authors

Duncan, K., Sadanand, A., Davachi, L., 2012. Memory’s penumbra: episodic memory decisions induce lingering mnemonic biases. Science 337, 485–487.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wasmer, C., Lange, A., Van Melckebeke, H., Siemer, A.B., Riek, R., Meier, B.H., 2008. Amyloid fibrils of the HET-s(218-289) prion form a beta solenoid with a triangular hydrophobic core. Science 319, 1523–1526.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuehni, R.G., 2004. Color. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gabrys-Barker, D. (Ed.), 2012. Cross-linguistic Influences in Multilingual Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning and Teaching. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Varró, D., 2016. Incremental Queries and Transformations: From Concepts to Industrial Applications, in: Freivalds, R.M., Engels, G., Catania, B. (Eds.), SOFSEM 2016: Theory and Practice of Computer Science: 42nd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Harrachov, Czech Republic, January 23-28, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 51–59.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. This Fully-Automated Medical Machine Can Perform Surgery 50X Faster Than Surgeons [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/an-automated-drill-could-soon-assist-doctors-in-surgeries/ (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, 2005. 21st Century Challenges: Reexamining the Base of the Federal Government (No. GAO-05-325SP-CD). 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

Alvandipour, M., 2017. Thermographic Image Analysis with Gabor Filters (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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., 2011. Writer’s Body Is Weaker, But Voice Remains Strong. New York Times A29B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (May, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (May, 2004; Prospero and Lamb, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Prospero and Lamb, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wasmer et al., 2008)

About the journal

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