How to format your references using the Chemical Engineering Research and Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemical Engineering Research and Design. 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

Bowen, G., 2015. Hydrology: The diversified economics of soil water. Nature 525, 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishida, H., Sawada, K., 2001. macho-1 encodes a localized mRNA in ascidian eggs that specifies muscle fate during embryogenesis. Nature 409, 724–729.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vinothkumar, K.R., Zhu, J., Hirst, J., 2014. Architecture of mammalian respiratory complex I. Nature 515, 80–84.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jones, D.C., Wein, M.N., Oukka, M., Hofstaetter, J.G., Glimcher, M.J., Glimcher, L.H., 2006. Regulation of adult bone mass by the zinc finger adapter protein Schnurri-3. Science 312, 1223–1227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lagraña, F., 2016. E-mail and Behavioral Changes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Allaire, G., 2008. Numerical Linear Algebra, Texts in Applied Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, J., Huang, H., Zuo, R., 2016. Report on the Institutional Reform of China’s Special Economic Zones, in: Tao, Y., Yuan, Y. (Eds.), Annual Report on the Development of China’s Special Economic Zones (2016): Blue Book of China’s Special Economic Zones, Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Singapore, pp. 121–152.

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 Research and Design.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. These Rankings Reveal How Your Country Is Doing In The Fight Against Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/these-rankings-reveal-how-your-country-is-doing-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/ (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, 2004. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Lack of Accountability for Computer Equipment Leaves These Assets Vulnerable to Loss or Misappropriation (No. GAO-04-520R). 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

Lamb, B.K., 2015. A Comparison of Carbon Dioxide Emissions at a Roundabout and a Signalized Intersection in a Mid-Sized City (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Barnes, B., Koblin, J., 2017. Disney Runs Toward Streaming. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bowen, 2015; Nishida and Sawada, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Nishida and Sawada, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Jones et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemical Engineering Research and Design
Abbreviation	Chem. Eng. Res. Des.
ISSN (print)	0263-8762
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry