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

Kump, L., 2005. Ocean science. Ironing out biosphere oxidation. Science 307, 1058–1059.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jutzi, M., Asphaug, E., 2011. Forming the lunar farside highlands by accretion of a companion moon. Nature 476, 69–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Galbraith, C.G., Yamada, K.M., Galbraith, J.A., 2007. Polymerizing actin fibers position integrins primed to probe for adhesion sites. Science 315, 992–995.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gunnarsen, K.S., Kristinsson, S.G., Justesen, S., Frigstad, T., Buus, S., Bogen, B., Sandlie, I., Løset, G.Å., 2013. Chaperone-assisted thermostability engineering of a soluble T cell receptor using phage display. Sci. Rep. 3, 1162.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mynbaev, K.T., 2011. Short-Memory Linear Processes and Econometric Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

El-Toukhy, T., Braude, P. (Eds.), 2014. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in Clinical Practice. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Berg, S., Nyberg, T., Kubart, T., 2008. Modelling of Reactive Sputtering Processes, in: Depla, D., Mahieu, S. (Eds.), Reactive Sputter Deposition, Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 131–152.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Cute, Colourful And Not That Tasty – But The Cleaner Fish Could Save Salmon Farmers Millions [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cute-colourful-and-not-tasty-cleaner-fish-could-save-salmon-farmers-millions/ (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. Personnel Security: Pass and Security Clearance Data for the Executive Office of the President (No. NSIAD-96-20). 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

Adams, A.A., 2009. A study of the attitudes and opinions of southwest Missouri educators regarding the value and outcome of the performance based teacher evaluation process (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Qiu, L., 2017. Phone Surveillance, Falsehoods and Anonymous Sources. New York Times A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kump, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Jutzi and Asphaug, 2011; Kump, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Jutzi and Asphaug, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Gunnarsen et al., 2013)

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