How to format your references using the ChemEngineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ChemEngineering. 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

Merryfield, B. Ocean Science. Ocean Mixing in 10 Steps. Science 2005, 308, 641–642.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ellington, A.D.; Bull, J.J. Evolution. Changing the Cofactor Diet of an Enzyme. Science 2005, 310, 454–455.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peizhen, Z.; Molnar, P.; Downs, W.R. Increased Sedimentation Rates and Grain Sizes 2-4 Myr Ago Due to the Influence of Climate Change on Erosion Rates. Nature 2001, 410, 891–897.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aach, J.; Bulyk, M.L.; Church, G.M.; Comander, J.; Derti, A.; Shendure, J. Computational Comparison of Two Draft Sequences of the Human Genome. Nature 2001, 409, 856–859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McLeish, B. Successful Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9781118386736.

An edited book

Branching Processes and Their Applications; del Puerto, I.M., González, M., Gutiérrez, C., Martínez, R., Minuesa, C., Molina, M., Mota, M., Ramos, A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Statistics; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 219; ISBN 9783319316390.

A chapter in an edited book

Antonucci, A. An Interval-Valued Dissimilarity Measure for Belief Functions Based on Credal Semantics. In Belief Functions: Theory and Applications: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Belief Functions, Compiègne, France 9-11 May 2012; Denoeux, T., Masson, M.-H., Eds.; Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 37–44 ISBN 9783642294600.

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 ChemEngineering.

Blog post

Hale, T. Strange Sighting Of Creepy Turkeys Forming A Marching Circle Around A Dead Cat Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/strange-sighting-of-creepy-turkeys-forming-a-marching-circle-around-a-dead-cat/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Aviation Training: FAA Aviation Safety Inspectors Are Not Receiving Needed Training; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1989;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

To, K.S. Loss of Promoter Methylation Is Correlated with mRNA Induction of Senescence Upregulated Gene UGT78D1. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Yablonsky, L. Characters Welcome. New York Times 2011, ST3.

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	ChemEngineering
Abbreviation	ChemEngineering
ISSN (online)	2305-7084
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