How to format your references using the ChemEngineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ChemEngineering. 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

Wright, J. Genetics: Unravelling Complexity. Nature 2014, 508, S6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pawlowska, T.E.; Taylor, J.W. Organization of Genetic Variation in Individuals of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. Nature 2004, 427, 733–737.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoffman, B.D.; Grashoff, C.; Schwartz, M.A. Dynamic Molecular Processes Mediate Cellular Mechanotransduction. Nature 2011, 475, 316–323.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, L.; Zhong, Y.; Cha, D.; Wang, P. A Self-Cleaning Underwater Superoleophobic Mesh for Oil-Water Separation. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2326.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maidl, B.; Herrenknecht, M.; Maidl, U.; Wehrmeyer, G. Maschineller Tunnelbau Im Schildvortrieb; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2011; ISBN 9783433600757.

An edited book

Computational Science – ICCS 2009: 9th International Conference Baton Rouge, LA, USA, May 25-27, 2009 Proceedings, Part I; Allen, G., Nabrzyski, J., Seidel, E., Albada, G.D. van, Dongarra, J., Sloot, P.M.A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 5544; ISBN 9783642019692.

A chapter in an edited book

Abboud, A.; Williams, V.V.; Weimann, O. Consequences of Faster Alignment of Sequences. In Automata, Languages, and Programming: 41st International Colloquium, ICALP 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 8-11, 2014, Proceedings, Part I; Esparza, J., Fraigniaud, P., Husfeldt, T., Koutsoupias, E., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; pp. 39–51 ISBN 9783662439470.

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 ChemEngineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Penguins Can Only Taste Salty And Sour Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/penguins-can-only-taste-salty-and-sour/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: National Weather Service Modernization and Weather Satellite Program; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nakayama, M. Educational Advocacy for Children in Foster Care: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Robbins, L.; Rodriguez, N.T. Gang Murders in the Suburbs. New York Times 2017, MB1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	ChemEngineering
Abbreviation	ChemEngineering
ISSN (online)	2305-7084
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