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

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

Fischer, R., 2008. Developmental biology. Sex and poison in the dark. Science 320, 1430–1431.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schlesinger, W.H., Lichter, J., 2001. Limited carbon storage in soil and litter of experimental forest plots under increased atmospheric CO2. Nature 411, 466–469.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghuman, A.S., van den Honert, R.N., Martin, A., 2013. Interregional neural synchrony has similar dynamics during spontaneous and stimulus-driven states. Sci. Rep. 3, 1481.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Buesseler, K.O., Andrews, J.E., Pike, S.M., Charette, M.A., 2004. The effects of iron fertilization on carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean. Science 304, 414–417.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg, S., 2011. Cost-Contained Regulatory Compliance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Anastassiou, G.A., 2013. Intelligent Routines: Solving Mathematical Analysis with Matlab, Mathcad, Mathematica and Maple, Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kammer, J.A., 2014. Ciliary Body as a Therapeutic Target, in: Samples, J.R., Ahmed, I.I.K. (Eds.), Surgical Innovations in Glaucoma. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 45–59.

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 Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. BREAKING: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Crashes In Mojave Desert [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/breaking-virgin-galactic-s-spaceshiptwo-crashes-over-mohave-desert/ (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, 2000. Electronic Government: Opportunities and Challenges Facing the FirstGov Web Gateway (No. GAO-01-87T). 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

Cardillo-Geller, L., 2010. Renegotiating relationships, patterns of grief and experiences of support: An examination of mothers’ relationships with their daughters following daughters’ loss of a husband in the September 11 th, 2001 World Trade Center attacks (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

(nyt), S.K., 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Georgia: Towns Demand Electricity. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fischer, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Fischer, 2008; Schlesinger and Lichter, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Schlesinger and Lichter, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Buesseler et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemical Engineering Science
Abbreviation	Chem. Eng. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0009-2509
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Applied Mathematics