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

Liu, J., 2015. Disease outbreak: Finish the fight against Ebola. Nature 524, 27–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts, D.L., Solow, A.R., 2003. Flightless birds: when did the dodo become extinct? Nature 426, 245.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, C.W., Ciston, J., Kanan, M.W., 2014. Electroreduction of carbon monoxide to liquid fuel on oxide-derived nanocrystalline copper. Nature 508, 504–507.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peppiatt, C.M., Howarth, C., Mobbs, P., Attwell, D., 2006. Bidirectional control of CNS capillary diameter by pericytes. Nature 443, 700–704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adhikari, S.K., 2005. Variational Principles and the Numerical Solution of Scattering Problems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Öztürk, M., Ashraf, M., Aksoy, A., Ahmad, M.S.A., Hakeem, K.R. (Eds.), 2015. Plants, Pollutants and Remediation, 1st ed. 2015. ed. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Wan, S., Yu, J., Wang, N., Wang, C., Liu, F., 2014. An Algorithm for Constructing Strongly Connected Dominating and Absorbing Sets in Wireless Networks with Unidirectional Links, in: Sun, L., Ma, H., Hong, F. (Eds.), Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks: 7th China Conference, CWSN 2013, Qingdao, China, October 17-19, 2013. Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 41–50.

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., 2016. Do You Even Lift? Why Lifting Weights Is More Important For Your Health Than You Think [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/do-you-even-lift-why-lifting-weights-more-important-your-health-you-think/ (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, 1978. Inadequacies in Data Processing Planning in the Department of Commerce (No. FGMSD-78-27). 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

Wonnacott, C.J., 2017. Ambiguity in Theory and Neutrality in Practice: The Allied Intervention and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Stewart, J.B., 2016. Hedge Fund Math: Heads or Tails, They Win. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Liu, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Liu, 2015; Roberts and Solow, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Roberts and Solow, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Peppiatt et al., 2006)

About the journal

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