How to format your references using the South African Journal of Chemical Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for South African Journal of 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	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

Hecht, S.S., 2011. Perspective: Tackling the real issues. Nature 471, S18.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aldecoa, R., Marín, I., 2013. Surprise maximization reveals the community structure of complex networks. Sci. Rep. 3, 1060.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lappe, M., Awater, H., Krekelberg, B., 2000. Postsaccadic visual references generate presaccadic compression of space. Nature 403, 892–895.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuznetsov, A.E., Birch, K.A., Boldyrev, A.I., Li, X., Zhai, H.-J., Wang, L.-S., 2003. All-metal antiaromatic molecule: rectangular Al4(4-) in the Li3Al4(-) anion. Science 300, 622–625.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morales, G., Kacher, C., 2015. Short Selling with the O’Neil Disciples. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Yung, M., Zhang, J., Yang, Z. (Eds.), 2016. Trusted Systems: 7th International Conference, INTRUST 2015, Beijing, China, December 7-8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Heine, V.M., Dooves, S., Holmes, D., Wagner, J., 2012. Conclusions, in: Dooves, S., Holmes, D., Wagner, J. (Eds.), Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Brain Diseases: Understanding the Methods, Epigenetic Basis, and Applications for Regenerative Medicine, SpringerBriefs in Neuroscience. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 55–59.

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 South African Journal of Chemical Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Why Are Humans Altruistic? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-humans-altruistic/ (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, 1996. Domestic Aviation: Changes in Airfares, Service, and Safety Since Airline Deregulation (No. T-RCED-96-126). 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

Ravilla, S., 2013. Correlation between diabetes and periodontitis (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Brantley, B., 2017. She’s Doomed, but No One Is Blameless. New York Times C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hecht, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Aldecoa and Marín, 2013; Hecht, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Aldecoa and Marín, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kuznetsov et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	South African Journal of Chemical Engineering
Abbreviation	S. Afr. J. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1026-9185
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