How to format your references using the Chemical Engineering Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemical Engineering Journal. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

M.-T. Heemels, Ageing, Nature. 464 (2010) 503.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Field, A.E. Osbourn, Metabolic diversification--independent assembly of operon-like gene clusters in different plants, Science. 320 (2008) 543–547.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.M. Douglas, I. Bachelet, G.M. Church, A logic-gated nanorobot for targeted transport of molecular payloads, Science. 335 (2012) 831–834.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.E.H. van Oort, N.J.C. Tyler, M.P. Gerkema, L. Folkow, A.S. Blix, K.-A. Stokkan, Circadian organization in reindeer, Nature. 438 (2005) 1095–1096.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Le Doeuff, M.E.H. Zaïm, Rotating Electrical Machines, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

I.G. Todorov, L. Turowska, eds., Algebraic Methods in Functional Analysis: The Victor Shulman Anniversary Volume, Springer, Basel, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Fornasiero, A. Chiodi, E. Carpanzano, L. Carneiro, Research Issues on Customer-Oriented and Eco-friendly Networks for Healthy Fashionable Goods, in: Á. Ortiz, R.D. Franco, P.G. Gasquet (Eds.), Balanced Automation Systems for Future Manufacturing Networks: 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Conference, BASYS 2010, Valencia, Spain, July 21-23, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 36–44.

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 Chemical Engineering Journal.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Scientists Capture The Sound Of An Atom For The First Time, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/physics/sound-one-atom-shaking/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Tongass Timber Reform Act: Implementation of the Act’s Contract Modification Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Wen, Moving office document processing into the cloud, 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

[1]

L. Yablonsky, Museo Drive, New York Times. (2010) M256.

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	Chemical Engineering Journal
Abbreviation	Chem. Eng. J.
ISSN (print)	1385-8947
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Environmental Chemistry