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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP). 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

Bertone, G., “The moment of truth for WIMP dark matter,” Nature, 468 (7322), pp. 389–393 (2010).

A journal article with 2 authors

Bitz, C.M., and Q. Fu, “Arctic warming aloft is data set dependent,” Nature, 455 (7210), pp. E3-4; discussion E4-5 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, A.S.Y., P.J. Kranzusch, and J.H.D. Cate, “eIF3 targets cell-proliferation messenger RNAs for translational activation or repression,” Nature, 522 (7554), pp. 111–114 (2015).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ricci, K.A., F. Girosi, P.I. Tarr, et al., “Reducing stunting among children: the potential contribution of diagnostics,” Nature, 444 Suppl 1, pp. 29–38 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, M., “Everyday Moral Economies,” John Wiley & Sons, Oxford (2013).

An edited book

Sahai, A., “Web Services in the Enterprise: Concepts, Standards, Solutions, and Management,” Springer US, Boston, MA (2005).

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, T.-J., S. Yuan, J. Ju, et al., “Lasing Actions Inside a Femtosecond Laser Filament in Air,” in A. D. Bandrauk, E. Lorin and J. V. Moloney, eds., , “Laser Filamentation: Mathematical Methods and Models,” Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 121–146 (2016).

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 Progress.

Blog post

Andrew, E., “Celebrate Earth Day Everyday,” IFLScience, 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/celebrate-earth-day-everyday/.

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, “Aviation Security: TSA Has Made Progress Implementing Requirements in the Aviation Security Act of 2016,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2017).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Comorau, N., “Postcolonial refashionings: Reading forms, reading novels,” 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

Kercher, S., “From Metaphysical to Mainstream,” New York Times, 2015, ST10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemical Engineering Progress
ISSN (print)	0360-7275
ISSN (online)	1945-0710
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