How to format your references using the Fuel citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fuel. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Westall F. Evolution. Life on the early Earth: a sedimentary view. Science 2005;308:366–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Agarwal N, Bishai WR. Microbiology. Subversion from the sidelines. Science 2010;327:417–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Neves SR, Ram PT, Iyengar R. G protein pathways. Science 2002;296:1636–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xie W, Barwick JL, Downes M, Blumberg B, Simon CM, Nelson MC, et al. Humanized xenobiotic response in mice expressing nuclear receptor SXR. Nature 2000;406:435–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bonnini S, Corain L, Marozzi M, Salmaso L. Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing: Rank and Permutation Methods with Applications in R. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Mita M, Mita A, Rowinsky EK, editors. mTOR Inhibition for Cancer Therapy: Past, Present and Future. 1st ed. 2016. Paris: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Anglani A, Caricato P, Grieco A, Nucci F. Selecting Capacity Plan. In: Matta A, Semeraro Q, editors. Design of Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Models for Capacity Planning in Advanced Manufacturing Systems, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005, p. 191–231.

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 Fuel.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti C. Video: Flat-Earthers Present Their “Evidence” For Why The Earth Is Flat. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-video-shows-some-of-the-completely-serious-evidence-that-some-people-believe-proves-the-earth-is-flat/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Information Technology: Departmental Leadership Crucial to Success of Investment Reforms at Interior. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Luna SC. An integrated treatment program for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Shpigel B. Finally on Big Stage, Predators Stumble in an Uneven Performance. New York Times 2017:B9.

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	Fuel
Abbreviation	Fuel (Lond.)
ISSN (print)	0016-2361
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Organic Chemistry Energy Engineering and Power Technology Fuel Technology