How to format your references using the Education for Chemical Engineers citation style

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

DiVincenzo, D.P., 2005. Physics. Double quantum dot as a quantum bit. Science 309, 2173–2174.

A journal article with 2 authors

Benfey, P.N., Mitchell-Olds, T., 2008. From genotype to phenotype: systems biology meets natural variation. Science 320, 495–497.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shanavas, K.V., Parker, D., Singh, D.J., 2014. Theoretical study on the role of dynamics on the unusual magnetic properties in MnBi. Sci. Rep. 4, 7222.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Meylan, E., Dooley, A.L., Feldser, D.M., Shen, L., Turk, E., Ouyang, C., Jacks, T., 2009. Requirement for NF-kappaB signalling in a mouse model of lung adenocarcinoma. Nature 462, 104–107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hogan, K., 2008. The Secret Language of Business. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Tost, G.O., Vasilieva, O. (Eds.), 2015. Analysis, Modelling, Optimization, and Numerical Techniques: ICAMI, San Andres Island, Colombia, November 2013, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Rossi, M.E., Deutsch, C.V., 2014. Definition of Estimation Domains, in: Deutsch, C.V. (Ed.), Mineral Resource Estimation. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 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 Education for Chemical Engineers.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Male Spider Mutilates Females’ Genitalia To Prevent Her From Mating Ever Again [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-spider-mutilates-females-genitalia-prevent-her-mating-ever-again/ (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, 2013. Transit Asset Management: Additional Research on Capital Investment Effects Could Help Transit Agencies Optimize Funding (No. GAO-13-571). 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

Lyngarkos, B., 2015. Examination of the relative importance of website elements for users of manufacturers representative websites (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Schmidt, S., 2016. In City Rich in History, Unusual Plan to Preserve Poet’s Home. New York Times A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DiVincenzo, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Benfey and Mitchell-Olds, 2008; DiVincenzo, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Benfey and Mitchell-Olds, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Meylan et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Education for Chemical Engineers
Abbreviation	Educ. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1749-7728
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Education