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

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

[1]

M. Grott, Planetary science. Is Mars geodynamically dead?, Science 320 (2008) 1171–1172.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.K. Jain, T.P. Padera, Development. Lymphatics make the break, Science 299 (2003) 209–210.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Jung, H.W. Green II, L.F. Dobrzhinetskaya, Intermediate-depth earthquake faulting by dehydration embrittlement with negative volume change, Nature 428 (2004) 545–549.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Paul, C.B. Elias, D. Shum-Tim, S. Prakash, Bioactive baculovirus nanohybrids for stent based rapid vascular re-endothelialization, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F.J. Fabozzi, Institutional Investment Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

H. Schättler, Geometric Optimal Control: Theory, Methods and Examples, Springer, New York, NY, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.D. Sworder, J.E. Boyd, Intercept and Target Prediction, in: J.E. Boyd (Ed.), Locating, Classifying and Countering Agile Land Vehicles: With Applications to Command Architectures, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 91–111.

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 Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, The MDMA Being Used To Treat Trauma Is Different From The Street Drug Ecstasy, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/the-mdmd-being-used-to-treat-trauma-is-different-from-the-street-drug-ecstasy/ (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, Aviation Security: FAA Can Help Ensure That Airports’ Access Control Systems Are Cost-Effective, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.B. Wiggins, Using Induced Signals to Develop a Position-Sensitive Microchannel Plate Detector, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 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

[1]

J. Eligon, On Big Stage, Ward Makes Big Statement, New York Times (2016) SP9.

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	Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering
Abbreviation	Chin. J. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1004-9541
Scope	Biochemistry General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Environmental Engineering