How to format your references using the Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering (CGCE). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Holden, C., Long Hours aside, Respondents Say Jobs Offer “as Much Fun as You Can Have,” Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 304, no. 5678, pp. 1830–37, June 18, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim-Muller, J. Y. and Accili, D., Cell Biology. Selective Insulin Sensitizers, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 331, no. 6024, pp. 1529–31, March 25, 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maini, P. K., Baker, R. E. and Chuong, C.-M., Developmental Biology. The Turing Model Comes of Molecular Age, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 314, no. 5804, pp. 1397–98, December 1, 2006.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Fischer, J., Koch, L., Emmerling, C., Vierkotten, J., Peters, T., Brüning, J. C. and Rüther, U., Inactivation of the Fto Gene Protects from Obesity, Nature, vol. 458, no. 7240, pp. 894–98, April 16, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaltashov, I. A. and Eyles, S. J., Mass Spectrometry in Biophysics, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

Wissing, M. P. Ed., Well-Being Research in South Africa, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, XIII, 639 p, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Dahlsen, J., Environmental Art, in Global South Ethnographies: Minding the Senses, E. Emerald R. E. Rinehart and A. Garcia, Eds., Rotterdam: SensePublishers, pp. 71–84, 2016.

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 Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, D., Whose Job Is It To Protect The Arctic?, IFLScience, September 12, 2016.

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, Defaulted Student Loans: Guaranty Agencies’ Collection Practices and Procedures, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HRD-86-114BR, Jul. 17, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Xiong, Y., Immuno-Magnetic T Cell Depletion for Allogeneic Hematological Stem Cell Transplantation, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2008.

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

Kelly, M., Gore Tells the Wary: Clinton Isn’t a Worry, New York Times, July 14, 1992.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holden, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Holden, 2004; Kim-Muller et al., 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kim-Muller et al., 2011)
Three or more authors: (Fischer et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering
ISSN (print)	2572-9896
ISSN (online)	2572-990X
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