How to format your references using the Sugar Tech citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sugar Tech. 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 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

Dulac, Catherine. 2006. Neuroscience. Charting olfactory maps. Science (New York, N.Y.) 314: 606–607.

A journal article with 2 authors

Person, Abigail L., and Indira M. Raman. 2011. Purkinje neuron synchrony elicits time-locked spiking in the cerebellar nuclei. Nature 481: 502–505.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, Bo O., Junming Zhao, and Yijun Feng. 2013. Active impedance metasurface with full 360° reflection phase tuning. Scientific reports 3: 3059.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sánchez-Luque, Francisco J., Michael Stich, Susanna Manrubia, Carlos Briones, and Alfredo Berzal-Herranz. 2014. Efficient HIV-1 inhibition by a 16 nt-long RNA aptamer designed by combining in vitro selection and in silico optimisation strategies. Scientific reports 4: 6242.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mack, Iris. 2014. Energy Trading and Risk Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Behnke, Roy, and Michael Mortimore, ed. 2016. The End of Desertification?: Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands. Springer Earth System Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gu, Min, Zaruhi Aslanyan, and Christian W. Probst. 2016. Understanding How Components of Organisations Contribute to Attacks. In Secure IT Systems: 21st Nordic Conference, NordSec 2016, Oulu, Finland, November 2-4, 2016. Proceedings, ed. Billy Bob Brumley and Juha Röning, 54–66. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Sugar Tech.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2015. New Laser Technology Detects Brain Tumors During Surgery. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 27.

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. 2003. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. GAO-04-213R. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Beck, Natasha A. 2017. Mobile Apps for Cognitive Restructuring: A Review and Comparative Analysis. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Kenigsberg, Ben. 2017. A Guide to Screen Cred. New York Times, August 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dulac 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Dulac 2006; Person and Raman 2011).

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

Two authors: (Person and Raman 2011)
Three or more authors: (Sánchez-Luque et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sugar Tech
Abbreviation	Sugar Tech
ISSN (print)	0972-1525
ISSN (online)	0974-0740
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science