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]

Milani A. Astronomy. Extraterrestrial material--virtual or real hazards? Science 2003;300:1882–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vecchi GA, Soden BJ. Effect of remote sea surface temperature change on tropical cyclone potential intensity. Nature 2007;450:1066–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chu R, Reczek D, Brondyk W. Capture-stabilize approach for membrane protein SPR assays. Sci Rep 2014;4:7360.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fielding EJ, Lundgren PR, Bürgmann R, Funning GJ. Shallow fault-zone dilatancy recovery after the 2003 Bam earthquake in Iran. Nature 2009;458:64–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Jones NF. The JCT Major Project Form. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Clarkson DB. S+ Functional Data Analysis: User’s Manual for Windows®. New York, NY: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wu TY, Guo N, Teh CY, Hay JXW. Challenges and Recent Developments of Sonochemical Processes. In: Guo N, Teh CY, Hay JXW, editors. Advances in Ultrasound Technology for Environmental Remediation, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 109–20.

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]

O`Callaghan J. A Cargo Spacecraft Has Been Doing Some Pretty Cool Things In Orbit. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cygnus-spacecraft-orbital-experiment/ (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. Need for a National Ocean Program and Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Robinson-Scott D. Policy analysis of the Chafee Foster Care Independence Act of 1999. 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]

Feeney K. Irish Inspiration; French Twists. New York Times 2010:NJ16.

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