How to format your references using the Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. 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

Greene M. 2008. Policy. A force for peace in the Middle East. Science. 322(5905):1192

A journal article with 2 authors

Pitaevskii L, Stringari S. 2002. Ultracold matter. The quest for superfluidity in Fermi gases. Science. 298(5601):2144–46

A journal article with 3 authors

Medzhitov R, Schneider DS, Soares MP. 2012. Disease tolerance as a defense strategy. Science. 335(6071):936–41

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Meckes B, Arce FT, Connelly LS, Lal R. 2014. Insulated conducting cantilevered nanotips and two-chamber recording system for high resolution ion sensing AFM. Sci. Rep. 4:4454

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

CCPS. 2006. Safe Design and Operation of Process Vents and Emission Control Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Stavrakakis I, Smirnov M, eds. 2006. Autonomic Communication: Second International IFIP Workshop, WAC 2005, Athens, Greece, October 2-5, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Vol. 3854. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XIII, 303 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Huseynova SA, Mahmudov H, Mustafayev II. 2013. Photochemical Decomposition of Hydrogen Sulphide in the Gas Mixtures and Generation Molecular Hydrogen. In Black Sea Energy Resource Development and Hydrogen Energy Problems, ed A Veziroğlu, M Tsitskishvili, pp. 47–53. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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 Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

Blog post

Hale T. 2017. Don’t Believe Your Eyes, These Strawberries Are Not Red. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2001. General Aviation: Status of the Industry, Related Infrastructure, and Safety Issues. GAO-01-916, 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

Porter J. 2010. Closing the classroom door: Denying the political, embracing the moral. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Arizona

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

Hollander S. 2000. It Gets Worse for Raymond. New York Times, Sep. 6, p. D4

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Chem. Biomol. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1947-5438
ISSN (online)	1947-5446
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment