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]

P.R. Mahaffy, Intensive Titan exploration begins, Science 308 (2005) 969–970.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Wang, D.J. Anderson, Identification of an aggression-promoting pheromone and its receptor neurons in Drosophila, Nature 463 (2010) 227–231.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.A. Moran, H.J. McLaughlin, R. Sorek, The dynamics and time scale of ongoing genomic erosion in symbiotic bacteria, Science 323 (2009) 379–382.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Da Costa Dias, K. Jovanovic, D. Gonsalves, K. Moodley, U. Reusch, S. Knackmuss, M.S. Weinberg, M. Little, S.F.T. Weiss, The 37kDa/67kDa laminin receptor acts as a receptor for Aβ42 internalization, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5556.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Reason, L. Løvlie, M. Brand Flu, Service Design for Business, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Á. Rocha, A.M. Correia, F.B. Tan, K.A. Stroetmann, eds., New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 2, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Hankela, “It’s Only the Glass Door, Which Breaks Every Day.” Layered Politics of (Dis)Order at the Central Methodist Mission, in: M. Wilhelm-Solomon, L. Núñez, P. Kankonde Bukasa, B. Malcomess (Eds.), Routes and Rites to the City: Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 91–115.

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]

E. Andrew, What Is A Neutron Star?, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-neutron-star/ (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, Federal Communications Commission: Direct Broadcast Satellite Public Interest Obligations, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Wignall, No longer in the shadows: Identity, citizenship, and belonging among undocumented college students in Southern California, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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. Lee, Looking for Love and Lobster Salad, New York Times (2013) ST13.

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