How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in 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]

J.R. Brooks, HYDROLOGY. Water, bound and mobile, Science 349 (2015) 138–139.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. von Storch, N. Stehr, Climate change in perspective, Nature 405 (2000) 615.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Pan, Y. Xiong, T.A. Steitz, How the CCA-adding enzyme selects adenine over cytosine at position 76 of tRNA, Science 330 (2010) 937–940.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V. Ramsuran, V. Naranbhai, A. Horowitz, Y. Qi, M.P. Martin, Y. Yuki, X. Gao, V. Walker-Sperling, G.Q. Del Prete, D.K. Schneider, J.D. Lifson, J. Fellay, S.G. Deeks, J.N. Martin, J.J. Goedert, S.M. Wolinsky, N.L. Michael, G.D. Kirk, S. Buchbinder, D. Haas, T. Ndung’u, P. Goulder, P. Parham, B.D. Walker, J.M. Carlson, M. Carrington, Elevated HLA-A expression impairs HIV control through inhibition of NKG2A-expressing cells, Science 359 (2018) 86–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-F. Daïan, Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 2, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

J. Camenisch, S. Fischer-Hübner, K. Rannenberg, eds., Privacy and Identity Management for Life, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Ju, Y. Kim, S. Jeong, J.-Y. Kim, N.-H. Lee, H.-K. Jung, W.-T. Han, Gamma-Ray Dose-Rate Dependence on Radiation Resistance of Specialty Optical Fiber with Inner Cladding Layers, in: P.A. Ribeiro, M. Raposo (Eds.), Photoptics 2014: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 51–65.

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 Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Camera Develops Pictures With Algorithms, Not Lenses, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/camera-develops-pictures-algorithms-not-lens/ (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, Telecommunications: Technological and Regulatory Factors Affecting Consumer Choice of Internet Providers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Ho, The influence of physical activity and unsafe neighborhoods on the development of gestational diabetes among women in California, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

G. Vecsey, Auburn vs. Oregon: Headsets at 20 Paces, New York Times (2011) SP6.

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	Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering
Abbreviation	Curr. Opin. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2211-3398
Scope	General Energy