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 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

Rosenzweig, A.C., 2015. Biochemistry: Breaking methane. Nature 518, 309–310.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fisher, S.J., Giudice, L.C., 2013. Retrospective. Robert G. Edwards (1925-2013). Science 340, 825.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zachos, J.C., Dickens, G.R., Zeebe, R.E., 2008. An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics. Nature 451, 279–283.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Geng, X., Sun, K., Ji, L., Zhao, Y., 2014. A high-order statistical tensor based algorithm for anomaly detection in hyperspectral imagery. Sci. Rep. 4, 6869.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paret, D., Huon, J.-P., 2017. Secure Connected Objects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Borkow, G. (Ed.), 2014. Use of Biocidal Surfaces for Reduction of Healthcare Acquired Infections. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, P., Xu, J., Lin, Z., Xu, D., Mao, B., Liu, P., 2015. A Practical Approach for Adaptive Data Structure Layout Randomization, in: Pernul, G., Y A Ryan, P., Weippl, E. (Eds.), Computer Security -- ESORICS 2015: 20th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Vienna, Austria, September 21-25, 2015, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 69–89.

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. Would You get Married in a Church Made From Living Trees? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/would-you-get-married-living-green-church/ (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, 2015. Post-9/11 GI Bill: Additional Actions Needed to Help Reduce Overpayments and Increase Collections (No. GAO-16-42). 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

Capelli, A.M., 2017. The (Un)Balanced Canon: Re-Visioning Feminist Conceptions of Madness and Transgression (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. Songkick Sells Name and Concert-Recommending Service. New York Times B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rosenzweig, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Fisher and Giudice, 2013; Rosenzweig, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Fisher and Giudice, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Geng et al., 2014)

About the journal

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