How to format your references using the Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering (CGCE). 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

Smaglik, P., Bridging Sectors. Medicon Valley, Nature, vol. 420, no. 6916 Suppl, pp. A24-5, December 12, 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Waller, L. and Tian, L., Computational Imaging: Machine Learning for 3D Microscopy, Nature, vol. 523, no. 7561, pp. 416–17, July 23, 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, J., Ewing, R. C. and Becker, U., Average Structure and Local Configuration of Excess Oxygen in UO(2+x), Scientific Reports, vol. 4, p. 4216, March 19, 2014.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kaji, K., Norrby, K., Paca, A., Mileikovsky, M., Mohseni, P. and Woltjen, K., Virus-Free Induction of Pluripotency and Subsequent Excision of Reprogramming Factors, Nature, vol. 458, no. 7239, pp. 771–75, April 9, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Suárez, A., Analysis and Design of Autonomous Microwave Circuits, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.

An edited book

Boettcher, L., Development and Learning of Young Children with Disabilities: A Vygotskian Perspective, Cham: Springer International Publishing, XIII, 212 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Hettige, S., Neo-Liberal Reforms, the Ethnic Conflict and the Decline of Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka, in Politics in South Asia: Culture, Rationality and Conceptual Flow, S. O. Wolf J. Schöttli D. Frommherz K. Fürstenberg M. Gallenkamp L. König and M. Pauli, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 61–72, 2015.

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 Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., Measuring Distances To Stars Just Got A Whole Lot Easier Thanks To This “Stellar Twin” Trick, IFLScience, September 4, 2015.

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, Tax Systems Modernization: Cyberfile Project Was Poorly Planned and Managed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, AIMD-96-140, Aug. 26, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Brown, J. D., Disparity in Healthcare among Black Americans in the United States, a Review of the Literature, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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

McFADDEN, R. D., June Foray Is Dead at 99; Voiced Rocky and a Cast Of Animated Characters, New York Times, July 27, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2002; Waller et al., 2015).

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

Two authors: (Waller et al., 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kaji et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering
ISSN (print)	2572-9896
ISSN (online)	2572-990X
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