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

McEwen, B.S., “Neuroscience. Hormones and the social brain,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 339 (6117), pp. 279–280 (2013).

A journal article with 2 authors

Cresswell, J.E., and H.M. Thompson, “Comment on ‘A common pesticide decreases foraging success and survival in honey bees,’” Science (New York, N.Y.), 337 (6101), pp. 1453; author reply 1453 (2012).

A journal article with 3 authors

Naumov, I.I., L. Bellaiche, and H. Fu, “Unusual phase transitions in ferroelectric nanodisks and nanorods,” Nature, 432 (7018), pp. 737–740 (2004).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Scherstén, A., T. Elliott, C. Hawkesworth, and M. Norman, “Tungsten isotope evidence that mantle plumes contain no contribution from the Earth’s core,” Nature, 427 (6971), pp. 234–237 (2004).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saleh, J.H., and J.-F. Castet, “Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures,” John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2011).

An edited book

Betta, M., ed., “The Moral, Social, and Commercial Imperatives of Genetic Testing and Screening: The Australian Case,” Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2006).

A chapter in an edited book

VanPool, C.S., and T.L. VanPool, “Breath and Being: Contextualizing Object Persons at Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico,” in K. Rountree, C. Morris and A. A. D. Peatfield, eds., , “Archaeology of Spiritualities,” Springer, New York, NY, pp. 87–106 (2012).

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

Fang, J., “Why Are Humans So Afraid Of Spiders?,” IFLScience, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/our-fear-spiders-innate-not-learned/.

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, “Observations on the National School Lunch Program’s Assessment, Improvement, and Monitoring System,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1983).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tanner-Anderson, S.L., “‘The Road Less Traveled’: The Female’s Journey to the State Superintendency,” 2014.

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

Eligon, J., “Cagey Mayweather Saves Fireworks for Last,” New York Times, 2017, D3.

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 [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [3, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

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