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

Riding, R., 2012. Geochemistry. A hard life for cyanobacteria. Science 336, 427–428.

A journal article with 2 authors

del Giorgio, P.A., Duarte, C.M., 2002. Respiration in the open ocean. Nature 420, 379–384.

A journal article with 3 authors

Larsen, R.E., Glover, W.J., Schwartz, B.J., 2010. Does the hydrated electron occupy a cavity? Science 329, 65–69.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Diu, T., Faruqui, N., Sjöström, T., Lamarre, B., Jenkinson, H.F., Su, B., Ryadnov, M.G., 2014. Cicada-inspired cell-instructive nanopatterned arrays. Sci. Rep. 4, 7122.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moreau, N., 2013. Tools for Signal Compression. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Beckert, B., Marché, C. (Eds.), 2011. Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Software: International Conference, FoVeOOS 2010, Paris, France, June 28-30, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Blasch, E., Chen, Y., Chen, G., Shen, D., Kohler, R., 2014. Information Fusion in a Cloud-Enabled Environment, in: Han, K.J., Choi, B.-Y., Song, S. (Eds.), High Performance Cloud Auditing and Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 91–115.

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., 2015. Equal But not The Same: A Male Bias Reigns In Medical Research [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/equal-not-same-male-bias-reigns-medical-research/ (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, 1995. Travel of Government Officials on Government Aircraft (No. T-NSIAD-96-85). 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

Seegmiller Renner, A., 2017. Empathy Development Through Role Modeling: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Experiences (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Stevenson, A., Goldstein, M., 2017. Man of Many Principles. New York Times BU1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Riding, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (del Giorgio and Duarte, 2002; Riding, 2012).

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

Two authors: (del Giorgio and Duarte, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Diu 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

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