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]

D. Graham-Rowe, Therapeutics: Strength in numbers, Nature 489 (2012) S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Schwartz, F. Collins, Medicine. Environmental biology and human disease, Science 316 (2007) 695–696.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Maharana, K.P. Sharma, S.K. Sharma, Feedback mechanism in depolarization-induced sustained activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase in the hippocampus, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1103.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.K. Min, G.H. Yoon, J.H. Joo, S.J. Sim, H.S. Shin, Mechanosensitive physiology of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii under direct membrane distortion, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4675.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Schmidt, R. Körber, M. Coppers, Sieben und Siebmaschinen, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2003.

An edited book

[1]

D. Cairns, The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Budurushi, M. Henning, M. Volkamer, Vote Casting in Any Preferred Constituency: A New Voting Channel, in: J. Heather, S. Schneider, V. Teague (Eds.), E-Voting and Identify: 4th International Conference, Vote-ID 2013, Guildford, UK, July 17-19, 2013. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 61–75.

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]

A. Carpineti, Rare Double Neutron Star Discovered Thanks To Einstein@Home Project, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/rare-double-neutron-star-discovered-thanks-to-einsteinhome-project/ (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, Aviation Insurance: Federal Insurance Program Needs Improvements to Ensure Success, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

X. Li, Graph-based learning for information systems, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2009.

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]

J. Barron, Flash Photography Allowed (When It’s Your Tour Guide), New York Times (2017) A16.

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