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

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

Cash, W., 2006. Detection of Earth-like planets around nearby stars using a petal-shaped occulter. Nature 442, 51–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stapel, D.A., Lindenberg, S., 2011. Coping with chaos: how disordered contexts promote stereotyping and discrimination. Science 332, 251–253.

A journal article with 3 authors

Storch, D., Keil, P., Jetz, W., 2012. Universal species-area and endemics-area relationships at continental scales. Nature 488, 78–81.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hampton, J., Sibert, J.R., Kleiber, P., Maunder, M.N., Harley, S.J., 2005. Fisheries: decline of Pacific tuna populations exaggerated? Nature 434, E1-2; discussion E2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paladino, B., 2013. Corporate Performance Management Best Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Marquis, G.B., 2016. IIW Recommendations for the HFMI Treatment: For Improving the Fatigue Strength of Welded Joints, IIW Collection. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Reinders, M., 2011. The role of social networks: Mark Granovetter, in: Vellema, S. (Ed.), Transformation and Sustainability in Agriculture: Connecting Practice with Social Theory. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, pp. 49–56.

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 Science.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Scientists Kick-Start Brain Of Comatose Patient Using Ultrasound [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-kick-start-brain-comatose-patient-ultrasound/ (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, 1975. Federal Guidance Needed if Halfway Houses Are To Be a Viable Alternative to Prison (No. GGD-75-70). 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

Blumenfeld, D.B., 2015. Policy Making and the U.S. Response to Global HIV/AIDS (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Wallace, N., 2016. The Minivan vs. the Maserati. New York Times A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cash, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Cash, 2006; Stapel and Lindenberg, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Stapel and Lindenberg, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Hampton et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemical Engineering Science
Abbreviation	Chem. Eng. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0009-2509
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Applied Mathematics