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

Stapnes, S. Detector Challenges at the LHC. Nature 2007, 448, 290–296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Courseaux, A.; Nahon, J.L. Birth of Two Chimeric Genes in the Hominidae Lineage. Science 2001, 291, 1293–1297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Castro-Camus, E.; Palomar, M.; Covarrubias, A.A. Leaf Water Dynamics of Arabidopsis Thaliana Monitored In-Vivo Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2910.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tegus, O.; Brück, E.; Buschow, K.H.J.; de Boer, F.R. Transition-Metal-Based Magnetic Refrigerants for Room-Temperature Applications. Nature 2002, 415, 150–152.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pan, G.W. Wavelets in Electromagnetics and Device Modeling; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2003; ISBN 9780471433910.

An edited book

Earthquake-Induced Landslides: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Earthquake-Induced Landslides, Kiryu, Japan, 2012; Ugai, K., Yagi, H., Wakai, A., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; ISBN 9783642322372.

A chapter in an edited book

Kuksin, S.B. Three Theorems on Perturbed KdV. In Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems and Applications; Craig, W., Ed.; NATO Science for Peace and Security Series; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008; pp. 85–92 ISBN 9781402069628.

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

O`Callaghan, J. Funnel Formed By Volcano On Mars Could Be A Prime Location For Life (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 A Summary of the Legislative Provisions of the Block Grants Created by the 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1982;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hamilton, M.A. Experiences of Everyday Racism: Understanding the Racial Difference in Perceptions of Physicians’ Cultural Competence. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati, OH, 2003.

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

Vecsey, G. Jets May Change, But Ryan Says He Won’t. New York Times 2011, B11.

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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