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. Nadis, The sky’s the limit as radio telescope array is approved, Nature 406 (2000) 665–666.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Clauset, D.H. Erwin, The evolution and distribution of species body size, Science 321 (2008) 399–401.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Feurer, J.C. Vaughan, K.A. Nelson, Spatiotemporal coherent control of lattice vibrational waves, Science 299 (2003) 374–377.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Liu, M.K. Montgomery, C.E. Fiveash, B. Osborne, G.J. Cooney, K. Bell-Anderson, N. Turner, PPARα-independent actions of omega-3 PUFAs contribute to their beneficial effects on adiposity and glucose homeostasis, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5538.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Misstear, D. Banks, L. Clark, Water Wells and Boreholes, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

J. Cao, L.T. Yang, M. Guo, F. Lau, eds., Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications: Second International Symposium, ISPA 2004, Hong Kong, China, December 13-15, 2004. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.S. Ford, S. Liu, Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome, and Cardiovascular Disease, in: B.C. Hansen, G.A. Bray (Eds.), The Metabolic Syndrome: Epidemiology Clinical Treatment and Underlying Mechanisms, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2008: pp. 75–84.

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]

J. Fang, New Caste of Thieving Ants Discovered, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/thieving-ants-act-guilty-after-their-heists/ (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, Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 4, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.A. Slayton, A psychoeducational support group for families of youth experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

J. Kelly, HOME FRONT/Erin St.; Trading Boardroom for a Camper’s Bunk, New York Times (2004) 101.

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