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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemical Engineering Journal. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

D.R. Lorimer, Astronomy. A pulsar bonanza, Science 307 (2005) 855–856.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Hajkova, M.A. Surani, Development. Programming the X chromosome, Science 303 (2004) 633–634.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Goebel, M.R. Waters, D.H. O’Rourke, The late Pleistocene dispersal of modern humans in the Americas, Science 319 (2008) 1497–1502.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Kramer, T. Rauch, W. Rist, S. Vorderwülbecke, H. Patzelt, A. Schulze-Specking, N. Ban, E. Deuerling, B. Bukau, L23 protein functions as a chaperone docking site on the ribosome, Nature 419 (2002) 171–174.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Ytterdal, Y. Cheng, T.A. Fjeldly, Device Modeling for Analog and RF CMOS Circuit Design, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2003.

An edited book

[1]

B. Vinod, R. Voyles, P. Vadakkepat, M. Sundaram, K.S. Sujatha, J.J. Brislin, eds., Advancements in Automation, Robotics and Sensing: First International Conference, ICAARS 2016, Coimbatore, India, June 23 - 24, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Kharchenko, O. Gordieiev, A. Fedoseeva, Profiling of Software Requirements for the Pharmaceutical Enterprise Manufacturing Execution System, in: R. Bris, J. Majernik, K. Pancerz, E. Zaitseva (Eds.), Applications of Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Technology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 67–92.

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 Chemical Engineering Journal.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Researchers Inject Tiny, Rolled-Up Electronics into the Brain Using a Syringe, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-inject-tiny-rolled-electronics-brain-using-syringe/ (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, Federal Communications Commission’s Effort To Implement the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.N. Tu, Novel bivalent organophosphates as inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase — Compounds with potential for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and studies in the development of asymmetric catalytic Kabachnik-Fields reaction, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

K. Feeney, QUICK BITE/Kenilworth; So Greek, So Good, New York Times (2006) 14NJ12.

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	Chemical Engineering Journal
Abbreviation	Chem. Eng. J.
ISSN (print)	1385-8947
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Environmental Chemistry