How to format your references using the Chemie Ingenieur Technik citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemie Ingenieur Technik. 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]

M. Mastalerz, Nature. 2015, 527 (7577), 174–176.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Kasparian, J.-P. Wolf, Science. 2009, 324 (5924), 194–195.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Pahwa, C. Scoglio, A. Scala, Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 3694.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

[1]

T. Park, F. Ronning, H. Q. Yuan, M. B. Salamon, R. Movshovich, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, Nature. 2006, 440 (7080), 65–68.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Leach, M. Drummond, A. Doig, Practical Flow Cytometry in Haematology Diagnosis, John Wiley & Sons, Oxford 2013.

An edited book

[1]

C. Schatan, E. Rivera, Eds. , Competition Policies in Emerging Economies: Lessons and Challenges from Central America and Mexico, Springer, New York, NY 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Somasundaram, P. Howard, R. H. Reed, in Navigating the Education Research Maze: Contextual, Conceptual, Methodological and Transformational Challenges and Opportunities for Researchers (Eds: D. Rossi, F. Gacenga, P. A. Danaher), Springer International Publishing, Cham 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 Chemie Ingenieur Technik.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, “White Dwarf Seen Before And After It Exploded By Astronomers,” available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/white-dwarf-seen-before-and-after-it-exploded-by-astronomers/, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, NTSB Recommendations, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. A. Fails, Mobile Collaboration for Young Children: Reading and Creating Stories, Doctoral dissertation, University Of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD 2009.

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]

J. Wagner, New York Times. 2016, B9.

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	Chemie Ingenieur Technik
ISSN (print)	0009-286X
ISSN (online)	1522-2640
Scope