How to format your references using the IET Renewable Power Generation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IET Renewable Power Generation. 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

Marshall, E.: ‘A sinister plot or victim of politics?’Science, 2000, 289, (5479), p. 571.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hla, T., Im, D.-S.: ‘Cell biology. The ABCs of lipophile transport’Science, 2009, 323, (5916), pp. 883–884.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz, W., Muttarak, R., Striessnig, E.: ‘Environment and development. Universal education is key to enhanced climate adaptation’Science, 2014, 346, (6213), pp. 1061–1062.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang, Y., Ge, X., Yang, F., et al.: ‘Comparison of non-canonical PAMs for CRISPR/Cas9-mediated DNA cleavage in human cells’Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p. 5405.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allsopp, W.: ‘Advanced Penetration Testing’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017)

An edited book

Kaiser, S.: ‘Strategic Management of Professional Service Firms: Theory and Practice’ (Springer, 2011)

A chapter in an edited book

MacLean, D., Komatineni, S.: ‘Working with Preferences and Saving State’, in Komatineni, S. (Ed.): ‘Android Fragments’ (Apress, 2014), pp. 61–81

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 IET Renewable Power Generation.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: ‘After Seven Months, Philae Has Woken Up!’, https://www.iflscience.com/space/philae-wakes/, accessed October 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

Government Accountability Office: ‘[Comments on NTSB Employee’s Claim for TQSE]’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bathon, J.M.: ‘Examining the characteristics of school leaders and of local schools where Indiana educational leadership preparation programs place their graduates’. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 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

Fiske, I.H.: ‘ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE’New York Times, 1907, p. SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKSBR233.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	IET Renewable Power Generation
Abbreviation	IET Renew. Power Gener.
ISSN (print)	1752-1416
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment