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

Savage N. 2011. Early detection: Spotting the first signs. Nature. 471(7339):S14-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts L, Travis J. 2012. Mysteries of the brain. Science. 338(6103):30

A journal article with 3 authors

Cramer P, Bushnell DA, Kornberg RD. 2001. Structural basis of transcription: RNA polymerase II at 2.8 angstrom resolution. Science. 292(5523):1863–76

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Peters HP, Brossard D, de Cheveigné S, Dunwoody S, Kallfass M, et al. 2008. Science communication. Interactions with the mass media. Science. 321(5886):204–5

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ibe OC. 2011. Fundamentals of Stochastic Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chander P, Drèze J, Lovell CK, Mintz J, eds. 2006. Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition. Boston, MA: Springer US. XVIII, 588 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

de Sousa JB, Lobo Pereira F. 2015. Coordination Challenges in Networked Vehicle Systems: Are We Missing Something? In Coordination Control of Distributed Systems, ed JH van Schuppen, T Villa, pp. 27–34. 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 Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. New Species of Monkey Discovered In Amazon Rainforest. 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. 1990. Submarine Technology: Transition Plans Needed to Realize Gains From DOD Advanced Research. IMTEC-90-21, 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

Hufnagel D. 2005. Search for the Cabibbo-Supressed D+ Meson Decays D+ → π+π 0 and D+ → K+ π0. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Ohio State 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

Greenhouse L. 2007. Supreme Court Ruling Limits State Control of Big Banks. New York Times, April 18, p. C2

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