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

Abbott, N.L., 2013. Applied physics. Colloid science collides with liquid crystals. Science 342, 1326–1327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roweis, S.T., Saul, L.K., 2000. Nonlinear dimensionality reduction by locally linear embedding. Science 290, 2323–2326.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pergams, O.R.W., Barnes, W.M., Nyberg, D., 2003. Mammalian microevolution: Rapid change in mouse mitochondrial DNA. Nature 423, 397.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cortázar, D., Kunz, C., Selfridge, J., Lettieri, T., Saito, Y., MacDougall, E., Wirz, A., Schuermann, D., Jacobs, A.L., Siegrist, F., Steinacher, R., Jiricny, J., Bird, A., Schär, P., 2011. Embryonic lethal phenotype reveals a function of TDG in maintaining epigenetic stability. Nature 470, 419–423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 2000. Guidelines for Process Safety in Outsourced Manufacturing Operations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kloos, C.D., Gillet, D., Crespo García, R.M., Wild, F., Wolpers, M. (Eds.), 2011. Towards Ubiquitous Learning: 6th European Conference of Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2011, Palermo, Italy, September 20-23, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chandrappa, R., Das, D.B., 2012. Disposal, in: Das, D.B. (Ed.), Solid Waste Management: Principles and Practice, Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 117–146.

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

Fang, J., 2015. Stunning New Ruby Seadragon Discovered [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/stunning-new-ruby-seadragon-discovered/ (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, 1998. Balancing Flexibility and Accountability: Grant Program Design in Education and Other Areas (No. T-GGD/HEHS-98-94). 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

Stadalis, M.D., 2015. Development of a Conceptual Model and Instrument for Sustaining Successful School Reculturing and Reform Efforts (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

St. John Kelly, E., 1999. Master of Her Cub Den at 82. New York Times 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2013; Roweis and Saul, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Roweis and Saul, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Cortázar et al., 2011)

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