How to format your references using the Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Taiwan Institute of 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	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]

Ibba M. Protein synthesis. Discriminating right from wrong. Science 2001;294:70–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Waterhouse PM, Fusaro AF. Plant science. Viruses face a double defense by plant small RNAs. Science 2006;313:54–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bascom-Slack CA, Arnold AE, Strobel SA. IBI series winner. Student-directed discovery of the plant microbiome and its products. Science 2012;338:485–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xiong S, Xi B, Zhang K, Chen Y, Jiang J, Hu J, et al. Ag nanoprisms with Ag₂S attachment. Sci Rep 2013;3:2177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Girmscheid G. Bauprozesse und Bauverfahren des Tunnelbaus. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Lakshmibai V. The Grassmannian Variety: Geometric and Representation-Theoretic Aspects. vol. 42. 1st ed. 2015. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bolatkale M, Breems LJ, Makinwa KAA. A 4 GHz Continuous-Time ΔΣ ADC. In: Breems LJ, Makinwa KAA, editors. High Speed and Wide Bandwidth Delta-Sigma ADCs, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 73–93.

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 Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. This Robotic Arm Could Be Helping Out Amputees Very Soon. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-robotic-arm-could-be-helping-out-amputees-very-soon/ (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. Biotechnology: Role of Institutional Biosafety Committees. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lemheney AJ. Design and development of virtual reality simulation for teaching high-risk low-volume problem-prone office-based medical emergencies. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2014.

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]

Baker L. A Housing Project That Embraces A City and Nature. New York Times 2010:B7.

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	Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers
Abbreviation	J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1876-1070
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry