How to format your references using the Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports. 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

1. Gordon DM. The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies. Nature. 2013;498:91–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Shao Z, Vollrath F. Surprising strength of silkworm silk. Nature. 2002;418:741.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Weiner S, Sagi I, Addadi L. Structural biology. Choosing the crystallization path less traveled. Science. 2005;309:1027–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ogawa Y, Kim SK, Dana R, Clayton J, Jain S, Rosenblatt MI, et al. International Chronic Ocular Graft-vs-Host-Disease (GVHD) Consensus Group: proposed diagnostic criteria for chronic GVHD (Part I). Sci Rep. 2013;3:3419.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Laykin E. Investigative Computer Forensics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Oertli D, Udelsman R, editors. Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands. 2nd ed. 2012. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Holweg M, Bicheno J. The Reverse Amplification Effect in Supply Chains. In: Pawar KS, Rogers H, Potter A, Naim M, editors. Developments in Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Past, Present and Future. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 52–8.

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 Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Interactive Maps Show The Devastating Effects Of Dropping Nuclear Bombs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/interactive-maps-show-effects-dropping-nuclear-bombs/

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. Managed Care: State Approaches on Selected Patient Protections. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Mar. Report No.: T-HEHS-99-85.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Terrell S. How Global Leaders Develop: A Phenomenological Study of Global Leadership Development [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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. Murphy MJO. 130 Years Ago: ‘War and Peace’ Finally Published in English. New York Times. 2016 Jan 29;C29.

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	Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports
ISSN (online)	2196-3010
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