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

Lienhardt C. 2014. Fundamental research is the key to eliminating TB. Nature. 507(7493):401

A journal article with 2 authors

Kodama R, Fast-Ignitor Consortium. 2002. Fast heating scalable to laser fusion ignition. Nature. 418(6901):933–34

A journal article with 3 authors

Otto S, Furlan RLE, Sanders JKM. 2002. Selection and amplification of hosts from dynamic combinatorial libraries of macrocyclic disulfides. Science. 297(5581):590–93

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Clutton-Brock TH, Coulson TN, Milner-Gulland EJ, Thomson D, Armstrong HM. 2002. Sex differences in emigration and mortality affect optimal management of deer populations. Nature. 415(6872):633–37

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahmad A. 2005. Wireless and Mobile Data Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Grehn F, Stamper R, eds. 2009. Glaucoma. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Watanabe Y, Yoshihama S, Mishina T, Kudo M, Maruyama H. 2006. Bridging the Gap Between Inter-communication Boundary and Internal Trusted Components. In Computer Security – ESORICS 2006: 11th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Hamburg, Germany, September 18-20, 2006. Proceedings, ed D Gollmann, J Meier, A Sabelfeld, pp. 65–80. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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. Electric Motorways Could Charge Electric Cars On The Go. 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. 2003. Federal Aviation Administration: Reauthorization Provides Opportunities to Address Key Agency Challenges. GAO-03-653T, 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

Kyriacou A. 2011. A method of verification of the total treatment time for the APBI (Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation) devices: Contura Multilumen Balloon and SAVI applicator. Doctoral dissertation thesis. 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

Otis J. 2016. Bypassing Stigma to Take Care of Herself and a Daughter Like Her. New York Times, Dec. 26, p. A16

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