How to format your references using the Process Safety and Environmental Protection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Hestrin, S., 2011. Neuroscience. The strength of electrical synapses. Science 334, 315–316.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ghalambor, C.K., Martin, T.E., 2001. Fecundity-survival trade-offs and parental risk-taking in birds. Science 292, 494–497.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sarrazin, A.F., Peel, A.D., Averof, M., 2012. A segmentation clock with two-segment periodicity in insects. Science 336, 338–341.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Maragliano, C., Lilliu, S., Dahlem, M.S., Chiesa, M., Souier, T., Stefancich, M., 2014. Quantifying charge carrier concentration in ZnO thin films by Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy. Sci. Rep. 4, 4203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Bodic, G., 2005. Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

He, M., 2012. Metal-Dielectric Interfaces in Gigascale Electronics: Thermal and Electrical Stability, Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Strauser, E., Naveau, M., Ménager, H., Maupetit, J., Lacroix, Z., Tufféry, P., 2012. Semantic Map for Structural Bioinformatics: Enhanced Service Discovery Based on High Level Concept Ontology, in: Lacroix, Z., Vidal, M.E. (Eds.), Resource Discovery: Third International Workshop, RED 2010, Paris, France, November 5, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–70.

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 Process Safety and Environmental Protection.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. Is The Human Mind Linked To Quantum Mechanics? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/is-the-human-mind-linked-to-quantum-mechanics/ (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, 1972. Employment Security Operations--The Impact of a Computerized Job Bank in Baltimore, Maryland (No. B-133182). 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

Gaines, M., 2017. Perceptions of knowledge sharing within hybrid learning environments: As iron sharpens iron among graduate students (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

Qiu, L., 2017. Lessons and Interpretations on the Court Nomination Process. New York Times A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hestrin, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ghalambor and Martin, 2001; Hestrin, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ghalambor and Martin, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Maragliano et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Process Safety and Environmental Protection
Abbreviation	Process Saf. Environ. Prot.
ISSN (print)	0957-5820
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering