How to format your references using the Computers and Chemical Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computers and 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	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

Schubert, C., 2011. Single-cell analysis: The deepest differences. Nature 480, 133–137.

A journal article with 2 authors

Imura, T., Tomonaga, M., 2013. Differences between chimpanzees and humans in visual temporal integration. Sci. Rep. 3, 3256.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roopnarine, P.D., Angielczyk, K.D., Hertog, R., 2006. Comment on “Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates.” Science 314, 925; author reply 925.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Neutze, R., Wouts, R., van der Spoel, D., Weckert, E., Hajdu, J., 2000. Potential for biomolecular imaging with femtosecond X-ray pulses. Nature 406, 752–757.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sigrist, J.-F., 2015. Fluid-Structure Interaction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Alegre Pérez, J.P., 2011. Automatic Gain Control: Techniques and Architectures for RF Receivers, Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Ohmori, T., Hosaka, T., Kanome, T., Inoue, F., Ando, K., Hirose, T., Kadofuku, T., Adachi, M., 2009. A Molecular Mechanism of Diminished Binding Activity between 15 bp Deletion Mutant EGFR and c-Cbl Ubiquitin Ligase, in: Tachikawa, T., Nose, K., Ohmori, T., Adachi, M. (Eds.), New Trends in the Molecular and Biological Basis for Clinical Oncology. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 55–66.

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 Computers and Chemical Engineering.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Scientists Discover Strongest Known Natural Material [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-strongest-natural-material-limpet-teeth/ (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, 2002. Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: Status, Plans, and Future Data Management Challenges (No. GAO-02-684T). 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

Ugwu, R.I., 2012. Perceptions of elementary teachers from an urban school district in Southern California regarding their inquiry-based science instructional practices, assessment methods, and professional development (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Wines, M., 2017. Win for Voting Rights Advocates, but Battles Are Ahead. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schubert, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Imura and Tomonaga, 2013; Schubert, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Imura and Tomonaga, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Neutze et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computers and Chemical Engineering
Abbreviation	Comput. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0098-1354
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Computer Science Applications