How to format your references using the Chemical Engineering Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemical Engineering Science. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Maquat, L.E., 2002. Molecular biology. Skiing toward nonstop mRNA decay. Science 295, 2221–2222.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chuong, E.B., Feschotte, C., 2013. Evolution. Transposons up the dosage. Science 342, 812–813.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kennedy, M.J., Pevear, D.R., Hill, R.J., 2002. Mineral surface control of organic carbon in black shale. Science 295, 657–660.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, L., Wang, L., Wu, Z., Yao, L., Wu, Y., Huang, L., Liu, K., Zhou, X., Gou, D., 2014. Anthocyanin-rich fractions from red raspberries attenuate inflammation in both RAW264.7 macrophages and a mouse model of colitis. Sci. Rep. 4, 6234.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blicq, R.S., Moretto, L.A., 2015. Writing Reports to Get Results. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, USA.

An edited book

Kachapi, S.H.H., 2014. Dynamics and Vibrations: Progress in Nonlinear Analysis, Solid Mechanics and Its Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Kellerman, H., Burry, A., 2007. Reality Testing and Cognitive Functioning, in: Kellerman, H., Burry, A. (Eds.), Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing: Analysis of Personality in the Psychological Report. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 43–52.

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 Chemical Engineering Science.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. The Great Barrier Reef Suffered Far Worse Bleaching Than Originally Thought [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-great-barrier-reef-suffered-far-worse-bleaching-than-originally-thought/ (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, 2000. Intellectual Property: Deposits of Biological Materials in Support of Certain Patent Applications (No. GAO-01-49). 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

Small, C.R., 2013. An investigation on the effect(s) of different modes of intervention for weight management on HDL-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol production among United States veterans (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

Burghardt, L.F., 2006. An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move. New York Times 14LI6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maquat, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Chuong and Feschotte, 2013; Maquat, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Chuong and Feschotte, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemical Engineering Science
Abbreviation	Chem. Eng. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0009-2509
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Applied Mathematics