How to format your references using the AIMS Energy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS Energy. 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 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

French AN (2010) Chemistry. Clean, green chiral reactions--just add a salt. Science 328: 1365–1366.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kondo S, Miura T (2010) Reaction-diffusion model as a framework for understanding biological pattern formation. Science 329: 1616–1620.

A journal article with 3 authors

Staver AC, Archibald S, Levin SA (2011) The global extent and determinants of savanna and forest as alternative biome states. Science 334: 230–232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kendirlik EM, Sirt S, Kalkan SB, et al. (2013) Anomalous resistance overshoot in the integer quantum Hall effect. Sci Rep 3: 3133.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Casandjian C, Challamel N, Lanos C, et al. (2013) Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames, Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Seidl H (Ed.) (2012) Programming Languages and Systems: 21st European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2012, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2012, Tallinn, Estonia, March 24 - April 1, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gkoulalas-Divanis A, Loukides G (2013) Preventing Re-identification While Supporting GWAS, In: Loukides G (Ed.), Anonymization of Electronic Medical Records to Support Clinical Analysis, New York, NY, Springer, 39–53.

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 AIMS Energy.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) IFLScience, Immense Size Of Hurricane Matthew Captured In Footage From The International Space Station, 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/immense-size-of-hurricane-matthew-captured-in-footage-from-the-international-space-station/.

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 (1985) NASA’s FIA Program: NASA’s Progress in Implementing Financial Integrity Act Requirements, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pecue CJ (2015) Utilizing Audiovisual Stimuli in the Classroom to Facilitate Pronunciation of French Stop Consonants.

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

Hodara S (2016) At 100, a Movement Still Astonishes and Provokes. New York Times CT10.

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	AIMS Energy
ISSN (online)	2333-8334
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