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

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

Marx, V., 2015. Cancer: A most exceptional response. Nature 520, 389–393.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pullum, G.K., Scholz, B.C., 2001. More than words. Nature 413, 367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murakoshi, H., Wang, H., Yasuda, R., 2011. Local, persistent activation of Rho GTPases during plasticity of single dendritic spines. Nature 472, 100–104.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yao, H., Price, T.T., Cantelli, G., Ngo, B., Warner, M.J., Olivere, L., Ridge, S.M., Jablonski, E.M., Therrien, J., Tannheimer, S., McCall, C.M., Chenn, A., Sipkins, D.A., 2018. Leukaemia hijacks a neural mechanism to invade the central nervous system. Nature 560, 55–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stokes, D.J., 2008. Principles and Practice of Variable Pressure/Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (VP-ESEM). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Munoz-Garcia, F., 2016. Strategy and Game Theory: Practice Exercises with Answers, Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Benedikter, R., Siepmann, K., Zlosilo, M., 2015. The Political Dimension: Chile After the Presidential and General Elections of 2013—What Future?, in: Benedikter, R., Siepmann, K. (Eds.), Chile in Transition: Prospects and Challenges for Latin America’s Forerunner of Development. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 79–102.

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 South African Journal of Chemical Engineering.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. There Are Still Active Volcanoes On Venus [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1977. Centralized Direction Needed for Calibration Program (No. LCD-77-426). 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

Ogawa, N., 2012. A Man Walks into the World (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Justices Weigh Opening New Phase on Guantánamo. 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 (Marx, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Marx, 2015; Pullum and Scholz, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Pullum and Scholz, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Yao et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	South African Journal of Chemical Engineering
Abbreviation	S. Afr. J. Chem. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1026-9185
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