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]

Git A. Research tools: A recipe for disaster. Nature 2012;484:439–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ho WCG, Heinke CO. A neutron star with a carbon atmosphere in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. Nature 2009;462:71–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Verbeeck J, Tian H, Schattschneider P. Production and application of electron vortex beams. Nature 2010;467:301–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Nerin C, Ubeda JL, Alfaro P, Dahmani Y, Aznar M, Canellas E, et al. Compounds from multilayer plastic bags cause reproductive failures in artificial insemination. Sci Rep 2014;4:4913.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McCormick K, Salcedo J. SPSS reg Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Jorgenson J. The Heat Kernel and Theta Inversion on SL2(C). New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Liénard E, Ban G, Blieck J, Durand D, Duval F, Fléchard X, et al. The LPCTrap experiment: measurement of the β-ν angular correlation in 6He using a transparent Paul trap. In: Dilling J, Comyn M, Thompson J, Gwinner G, editors. TCP 2006: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP 2006) held in Parksville, Canada, 3–8 September, 2006, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 29–33.

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]

Andrew E. Several Cancers Caused By The Same Genetic Mutations. IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/several-cancers-caused-same-genetic-mutations/ (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. Advance Sheets: Volume 74, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Freund SH. The Relationship of Academic Courses to Skills Required Of Automobile Repair Technicians. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, 2013.

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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Officers Cleared Of Chechen Deaths. New York Times 2005:A11.

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