How to format your references using the Education for Chemical Engineers citation style

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

Sohn, E., 2015. Screening: Diagnostic dilemma. Nature 528, S120-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

You, J.Q., Nori, F., 2011. Atomic physics and quantum optics using superconducting circuits. Nature 474, 589–597.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rolland-Lagan, A.-G., Bangham, J.A., Coen, E., 2003. Growth dynamics underlying petal shape and asymmetry. Nature 422, 161–163.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xie, H., Wang, H., Fu, C., Liu, Y., Snyder, G.J., Zhao, X., Zhu, T., 2014. The intrinsic disorder related alloy scattering in ZrNiSn half-Heusler thermoelectric materials. Sci. Rep. 4, 6888.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ergül, Ö., Gürel, L., 2014. The Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm (MLFMA) for Solving Large-Scale Computational Electromagnetics Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Pronzato, L., Zhigljavsky, A. (Eds.), 2009. Optimal Design and Related Areas in Optimization and Statistics, Springer Optimization and Its Applications. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Batini, C., Scannapieco, M., 2008. Attività e Tecniche Inerenti la Qualità dei Dati: Generalità, in: Scannapieco, M. (Ed.), Qualità Dei Dati: Concetti, Metodi e Tecniche, UNITEXT. Springer, Milano, pp. 75–102.

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 Education for Chemical Engineers.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Four Things That You Should Know About The EPA Clean Power Plan [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/four-things-you-should-know-about-epa-clean-power-plan/ (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, 1977. The Title I Program for the Handicapped (No. 103696). 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

Casale, N., 2015. Generational preferences in marketing medium selections of animal adoptions in nonprofit organizations: A correlational study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Brantley, B., 2017. A ‘Torch’ Still Sears. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sohn, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Sohn, 2015; You and Nori, 2011).

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

Two authors: (You and Nori, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Education for Chemical Engineers
Abbreviation	Educ. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1749-7728
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Education