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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computers and 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	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

van Deursen, J.M., 2014. The role of senescent cells in ageing. Nature 509, 439–446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roelofs, J., Van Haastert, P.J., 2001. Genes lost during evolution. Nature 411, 1013–1014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Batista, C.A.S., Larson, R.G., Kotov, N.A., 2015. Nonadditivity of nanoparticle interactions. Science 350, 1242477.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Evans, R.E., Bhaskar, M.K., Sukachev, D.D., Nguyen, C.T., Sipahigil, A., Burek, M.J., Machielse, B., Zhang, G.H., Zibrov, A.S., Bielejec, E., Park, H., Lončar, M., Lukin, M.D., 2018. Photon-mediated interactions between quantum emitters in a diamond nanocavity. Science 362, 662–665.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hitz, B., Ewing, J.J., Hecht, J., 2005. Introduction to Laser Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mahmood, Z., Hill, R. (Eds.), 2011. Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures, Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Yoshimura, N., Tyagi, P., Chancellor, M.B., 2016. Pathophysiology and Animal Modeling of Underactive Bladder, in: Chancellor, M.B., Diokno, A.C. (Eds.), The Underactive Bladder. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 51–68.

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 Computers and Chemical Engineering.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Drug-Resistant Malaria Parasite From Southeast Asia Infects African Mosquitoes Too [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/drug-resistant-malaria-parasite-southeast-asia-infects-african-mosquitoes-too/ (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, 2001. Telecommunications: Metropolitan Area Acquisition Program Implementation and Management (No. GAO-01-798T). 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

Collins, J.D., 2012. Answers in diagenesis: Assessing mussel shell diagenesis in the modern vadose zone at Lyon’s Bluff (22OK520), northeast Mississippi (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Exclusive Club? Not Anymore. New York Times B16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van Deursen, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Roelofs and Van Haastert, 2001; van Deursen, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Roelofs and Van Haastert, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Evans et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computers and Chemical Engineering
Abbreviation	Comput. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0098-1354
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Computer Science Applications