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. Grant PM. Obituary: Chauncey Starr (1912-2007). Nature. 2007;447:789.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schwartz JH, Tattersall I. ANTHROPOLOGY. Defining the genus Homo. Science. 2015;349:931–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Danchin E, Wajnberg E, Wagner RH. Avoiding pitfalls in estimating heritability with the common options approach. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3974.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lauhon LJ, Gudiksen MS, Wang D, Lieber CM. Epitaxial core-shell and core-multishell nanowire heterostructures. Nature. 2002;420:57–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wittcoff HA, Reuben BG, Plotkin JS. Industrial Organic Chemicals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Kim T-H, Lee Y-H, Fang W-C, editors. Future Generation Information Technology: 4th International Conference, FGIT 2012, Gangneug, Korea, December 16-19, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lindquist S, Westerlund B, Sundblad Y, Tobiasson H, Beaudouin-Lafon M, Mackay W. Co-designing Communication Technology with and for Families – Methods, Experience, Results and Impact. In: Streitz N, Kameas A, Mavrommati I, editors. The Disappearing Computer: Interaction Design, System Infrastructures and Applications for Smart Environments. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 99–119.

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. Sex Offending May Be In The Genes But Knowing That Won’t Prevent It [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sex-offending-may-be-genes-knowing-won-t-prevent-it/

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. Space Shuttle: NASA’s Procurement of Solid Rocket Booster Motors. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Aug. Report No.: NSIAD-86-194.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ariani D. Amerindo International Nurse Recruitment Agency [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Walsh MW. Crushed by Promises. New York Times. 2012 Jun 26;B1.

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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