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. Moore JE. The birth of topological insulators. Nature. 2010;464:194–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Venitt S, Phillips DH. Philip D. Lawley (1927-2011). Nature. 2012;482:36.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Stajic J, Coontz R, Osborne I. Superconductivity. Happy 100th, superconductivity! Introduction. Science. 2011;332:189.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cardinal RN, Pennicott DR, Sugathapala CL, Robbins TW, Everitt BJ. Impulsive choice induced in rats by lesions of the nucleus accumbens core. Science. 2001;292:2499–501.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Liu S, Liu Y. Modeling and Simulation for Microelectronic Packaging Assembly. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Wooding P. Comparative Placentation: Structures, Functions and Evolution. Burton G, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Poloni F. Permuted Graph Matrices and Their Applications. In: Benner P, Bollhöfer M, Kressner D, Mehl C, Stykel T, editors. Numerical Algebra, Matrix Theory, Differential-Algebraic Equations and Control Theory: Festschrift in Honor of Volker Mehrmann. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 107–29.

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. Andrew E. Orange Is The New Black Gold: How Peel Could Replace Crude Oil In Plastics [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/orange-new-black-gold-how-peel-could-replace-crude-oil-plastics/

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. The Federal Interest in Legislative-Administrative Relations in the States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981 Apr. Report No.: 114840.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. DeSpain L. The relationship between police supervisor training and job satisfaction levels as reported by patrol officers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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. Shear MD, Nixon R, Liptak A. Justices Cancel Hearing on Travel Ban as Questions Linger on New Policy. New York Times. 2017 Sep 25;A12.

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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