How to format your references using the Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Taiwan Institute of 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	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]

Brunham RC. IMMUNOLOGY. A Chlamydia vaccine on the horizon. Science 2015;348:1322–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sankar P, Cho MK. Genetics. Toward a new vocabulary of human genetic variation. Science 2002;298:1337–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Burkle LA, Marlin JC, Knight TM. Plant-pollinator interactions over 120 years: loss of species, co-occurrence, and function. Science 2013;339:1611–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Rosenfeld D, Dai J, Yu X, Yao Z, Xu X, Yang X, et al. Inverse relations between amounts of air pollution and orographic precipitation. Science 2007;315:1396–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Joyce PM, Lipton D. Lamentations Through the Centuries. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Vaidyanathan S, Harrigan GG, Goodacre R, editors. Metabolome Analyses: Strategies for Systems Biology. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Benz AO, Battaglia M, Vilmer N. Location of Decimetric Pulsations in Solar Flares. In: Marqué C, Nindos A, editors. Energy Storage and Release through the Solar Activity Cycle: Models Meet Radio Observations, New York, NY: Springer; 2012, p. 57–69.

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 Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Sustainability Science Is A New Academic Discipline. But Is It Sustainable? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/sustainability-science-new-academic-discipline-it-sustainable/ (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. Highway Research: Systematic Selection and Evaluation Processes Needed for Research Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Larson SE. A case of rational irrationality: Evidence of expressive interest bias in state e-commerce sales and use tax legislation. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2014.

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]

Vecsey G. The Dangerous Cocoon Of King Football. New York Times 2011:B16.

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	Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers
Abbreviation	J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1876-1070
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry