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

Smith, O., 2001. Chemistry. Nota bene: know thine enemy. Science 294, 1298.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor, J.R.A., Kier, W.M., 2006. Biomechanics: a pneumo-hydrostatic skeleton in land crabs. Nature 440, 1005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Royo-Torres, R., Cobos, A., Alcalá, L., 2006. A giant European dinosaur and a new sauropod clade. Science 314, 1925–1927.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Burlaga, L.F., Ness, N.F., Acuña, M.H., Lepping, R.P., Connerney, J.E.P., Stone, E.C., McDonald, F.B., 2005. Crossing the termination shock into the heliosheath: magnetic fields. Science 309, 2027–2029.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Studer, Q., 2007. Results that Last. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zhu, R., Zhang, Y., Liu, B., Liu, C. (Eds.), 2010. Information Computing and Applications: First International Conference, ICICA 2010, Tangshan, China, October 15-18, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Horita, M., Koizumi, H., Manabe, R., Sugisaki, K., Nagayama, D., 2009. Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Urban Regeneration, in: Horita, M., Koizumi, H. (Eds.), Innovations in Collaborative Urban Regeneration, CSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 43–51.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Gravitational Waves Observed For A Second Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/gravitational-waves-observed-for-a-second-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, 1988. ADP Planning: Allegations of Inadequate Procurements at the National Archives (No. IMTEC-88-34). 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

Cook, A.E., 2010. Gas hydrate-filled fracture reservoirs on continental margins (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Baker, P., 2017. President Backs A Plan to Curtail Legal Migration. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Smith, 2001; Taylor and Kier, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Taylor and Kier, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Burlaga et al., 2005)

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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