How to format your references using the Chemical Engineering Research and Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemical Engineering Research and Design. 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

Pellegrino, J.W., 2013. Proficiency in science: assessment challenges and opportunities. Science 340, 320–323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson, H., Tucker, A.S., 2013. Dual origin of the epithelium of the mammalian middle ear. Science 339, 1453–1456.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hurst, L.D., Feil, E.J., Rocha, E.P.C., 2006. Protein evolution: causes of trends in amino-acid gain and loss. Nature 442, E11-2; discussion E12.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yuan, Y., Jiang, C., Liu, L., Yu, S., Cui, Z., Chen, M., Lin, S., Wang, S., Huang, L., 2014. Convenient, sensitive and high-throughput method for screening botanic origin. Sci. Rep. 4, 5395.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Srivastava, S.P., 2014. Developments in Lubricant Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

Jonker, W., Petković, M. (Eds.), 2006. Secure Data Management: Third VLDB Workshop, SDM 2006, Seoul, Korea, September 10-11, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Jain, V., 2016. Domain Adaptation for Face Detection, in: Singh, R., Vatsa, M., Majumdar, A., Kumar, A. (Eds.), Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 37–54.

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 Research and Design.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Trouble strikes China’s lunar rover, Yutu [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/trouble-strikes-china’s-lunar-rover-yutu/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2013. Army Networks: Opportunities Exist to Better Utilize Results from Network Integration Evaluations (No. GAO-13-711). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gwaduri, E., 2009. A personal narrative: Struggles and experiences of acculturation as a Pakistani Shia Muslim while battling immigration (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kishkovsky, S., 2006. Attackers Pillage Moscow Art Gallery and Beat Activist Owner. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Pellegrino, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Pellegrino, 2013; Thompson and Tucker, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Thompson and Tucker, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Yuan et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemical Engineering Research and Design
Abbreviation	Chem. Eng. Res. Des.
ISSN (print)	0263-8762
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry