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

Glynn, I., 2001. An intriguing door. Nature 413, 683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Takehara-Nishiuchi, K., McNaughton, B.L., 2008. Spontaneous changes of neocortical code for associative memory during consolidation. Science 322, 960–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Komatitsch, D., Ritsema, J., Tromp, J., 2002. The spectral-element method, Beowulf computing, and global seismology. Science 298, 1737–1742.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bieber, S., Halldorson, J.B., Finn, E., Ahmad, S., Chamberlain, J.S., Odom, G.L., 2013. Extracorporeal delivery of rAAV with metabolic exchange and oxygenation. Sci. Rep. 3, 1538.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morsali, A., Hashemi, L., 2017. Main Group Metal Coordination Polymers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Liberopoulos, G., Papadopoulos, C.T., Tan, B., Smith, J.M., Gershwin, S.B. (Eds.), 2006. Stochastic Modeling of Manufacturing Systems: Advances in Design, Performance Evaluation, and Control Issues. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Crozier, P.A., Miller, B.K., 2016. Spectroscopy of Solids, Gases, and Liquids in the ETEM, in: Hansen, T.W., Wagner, J.B. (Eds.), Controlled Atmosphere Transmission Electron Microscopy: Principles and Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 95–141.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. Has Metallic Hydrogen Been Achieved For The First Time? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/metallic-hydrogen-achieved-for-the-first-time/ (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, 2015. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Additional Action Needed to Achieve Intended Outcomes (No. GAO-15-627). 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

Yang, Z., 2017. Primary Isotope Effect on Secondary Kinetic Isotope Effects and Hammett Correlations in Hydride Transfer Reactions (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. Keeping the Dream Kickin’. 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 (Glynn, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Glynn, 2001; Takehara-Nishiuchi and McNaughton, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Takehara-Nishiuchi and McNaughton, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Bieber et al., 2013)

About the journal

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