How to format your references using the Sustainable Chemical Processes citation style

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

Macilwain C (2000) Bell Labs win superconductivity patent. Nature 403:121–122

A journal article with 2 authors

Sundquist WI, Ullman KS (2015) CELL BIOLOGY. An ESCRT to seal the envelope. Science 348:1314–1315

A journal article with 3 authors

Kunchulia M, Pilz KS, Herzog MH (2014) Small effects of smoking on visual spatiotemporal processing. Sci Rep 4:7316

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bibby TS, Nield J, Partensky F, Barber J (2001) Oxyphotobacteria. Antenna ring around photosystem I. Nature 413:590

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eggleston B (2008) The ICE Conditions of Contract: Seventh Edition. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Velde P (2010) Soils, Plants and Clay Minerals: Mineral and Biologic Interactions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Anelli R (2016) Recycling and Restoration: Adding New Meaning to Historical Buildings Through Minimal Interventions. In: Condello A, Lehmann S (eds) Sustainable Lina: Lina Bo Bardi’s Adaptive Reuse Projects. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 97–160

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 Chemical Processes.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) The Rise Of Border Fences Across Europe And Asia Has Unintended Consequences For Wildlife. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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) Aviation Security: FAA’s Deployments of Equipment to Detect Traces of Explosives. 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

Grant JA (2015) Far-field noise from a rotor in a wind tunnel. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Díaz ME, Neuman W (2013) U.S. Filmmaker Held in Venezuela Sought to Show Political Divide, Friends Say. New York Times A9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Sustainable Chemical Processes
Abbreviation	Sustain. Chem. Process.
ISSN (online)	2043-7129
Scope