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 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

Baker M (2010) Whole-animal imaging: The whole picture. Nature 463: 977–980.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bengtson MH, Joazeiro CAP (2010) Role of a ribosome-associated E3 ubiquitin ligase in protein quality control. Nature 467: 470–473.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bush MB, Silman MR, Urrego DH (2004) 48,000 years of climate and forest change in a biodiversity hot spot. Science 303: 827–829.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Douce T, Eckstein A, Walborn SP, et al. (2013) Direct measurement of the biphoton Wigner function through two-photon interference. Sci Rep 3: 3530.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kudnig ST, Séguin B (2012) Veterinary Surgical Oncology, West Sussex, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Kezunovic M (2016) Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Protective Relays for Power Systems, Cham, Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Braibant S, Giacomelli G, Spurio M (2012) Il paradigma delle interazioni: Il caso elettromagnetico, In: Giacomelli G, Spurio M (Eds.), Particelle e interazioni fondamentali: Il mondo delle particelle, Milano, Springer, 77–105.

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

Andrew E (2015) IFLScience, Newly Discovered Dinosaur Had Neck Half The Length Of Its Body, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-discovered-dinosaur-had-neck-half-length-its-body/.

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 (2016) Emergency Communications: Improved Procurement of Land Mobile Radios Could Enhance Interoperability and Cut Costs, 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

Navarro C (2012) Advocacy services for high-risk Latino families caring for children with autism: A grant proposal.

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, Kirkpatrick DD (2007) Justices Loosen Ad Restrictions In Campaign Law. New York Times A1.

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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