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

Egolf, D.A. Statistical Mechanics. Far from Equilibrium. Science 2002, 296, 1813–1815.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reznick, D.N.; Ricklefs, R.E. Darwin’s Bridge between Microevolution and Macroevolution. Nature 2009, 457, 837–842.

A journal article with 3 authors

Changela, A.; DiGate, R.J.; Mondragón, A. Crystal Structure of a Complex of a Type IA DNA Topoisomerase with a Single-Stranded DNA Molecule. Nature 2001, 411, 1077–1081.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pang, W.-W.; Zhang, P.; Zhang, G.-C.; Xu, A.-G.; Zhao, X.-G. Dislocation Creation and Void Nucleation in FCC Ductile Metals under Tensile Loading: A General Microscopic Picture. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6981.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety Guidelines for Process Safety in Batch Reaction Systems; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 1999; ISBN 9780470935385.

An edited book

Foster, H.D. Creating Assertion-Based IP; Krolnik, A.C., Ed.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2008; ISBN 9780387366418.

A chapter in an edited book

Steiber, A.; Alänge, S. Entrepreneurship: What It Really Is, and Why It Must Be Integrated into Management of the Firm. In The Silicon Valley Model: Management for Entrepreneurship; Alänge, S., Ed.; Management for Professionals; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 53–63 ISBN 9783319249193.

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. Here’s Why Your Cat Is Such A Picky Eater Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/here-s-why-your-cat-such-picky-eater/ (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 Opportunity To Reduce Costs Substantially In Acquiring Teletypewriters For Use In The Advanced Record System Communications Network; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1968;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shenasi, S.Y. The Roots of Music Therapy: Healing the Wounds of the Psyche. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute: Carpinteria, CA, 2015.

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. Oral Dissents Give Ginsburg A New Voice. New York Times 2007, A1.

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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