How to format your references using the Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

S. Harper, Economic and social implications of aging societies, Science 346 (2014) 587–591.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Irwing, R. Lynn, Intelligence: is there a sex difference in IQ scores?, Nature 442 (2006) E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. King, J. Pan, M.E. Roberts, Political science. Reverse-engineering censorship in China: randomized experimentation and participant observation, Science 345 (2014) 1251722.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Stocker, M. Andjelkovic, S. Oldham, M. Laffargue, M.P. Wymann, B.A. Hemmings, E. Hafen, Living with lethal PIP3 levels: viability of flies lacking PTEN restored by a PH domain mutation in Akt/PKB, Science 295 (2002) 2088–2091.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Leroy, Eyestrain Reduction in Stereoscopy, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

J.S. Axford, ed., Glycobiology and Medicine: Proceedings of the 7th Jenner Glycobiology and Medicine Symposium, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Das, G. Dutta, N.K. Mandal, B.K. Sinha, OCDs in Group Divisible Design Set-Up, in: G. Dutta, N.K. Mandal, B.K. Sinha (Eds.), Optimal Covariate Designs: Theory and Applications, Springer India, New Delhi, 2015: pp. 65–88.

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 Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, New Initiative To Save 50 Coral Reefs From Extinction, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-initiative-to-save-50-coral-reefs-from-extinction/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, FirstNet: Efforts to Establish the Public-Safety Broadband Network, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Qin, Mid -ocean ridge morphology and tectonics: Insights from numerical modeling of faults and dikes, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2008.

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

[1]

V.M. Mallozzi, For Their Wedding, the Moon Dimmed the Lights, New York Times (2017) ST13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering
Abbreviation	Chin. J. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1004-9541
Scope	Biochemistry General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Environmental Engineering