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

Muller, N.Z.: ‘Economics. Boosting GDP growth by accounting for the environment’Science, 2014, 345, (6199), pp. 873–874.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crandall, K.A., Buhay, J.E.: ‘Evolution. Genomic databases and the tree of life’Science, 2004, 306, (5699), pp. 1144–1145.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, A.P.P., Pigli, Y.Z., Rice, P.A.: ‘Structure of the LexA-DNA complex and implications for SOS box measurement’Nature, 2010, 466, (7308), pp. 883–886.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dillehay, T.D., Rossen, J., Andres, T.C., Williams, D.E.: ‘Preceramic adoption of peanut, squash, and cotton in northern Peru’Science, 2007, 316, (5833), pp. 1890–1893.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldstein, L.S.B., Schneider, M.: ‘Stem Cells for Dummies®’ (Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010)

An edited book

Droste-Franke, B.: ‘Balancing Renewable Electricity: Energy Storage, Demand Side Management, and Network Extension from an Interdisciplinary Perspective’ (Springer, 2012)

A chapter in an edited book

El-Khawas, E.: ‘A Changed Policy Environment for US Universities’, in Bascia, N., Cumming, A., Datnow, A., Leithwood, K., Livingstone, D. (Eds.): ‘International Handbook of Educational Policy’ (Springer Netherlands, 2005), pp. 101–114

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.: ‘Enormous Asteroid Set To Fly Past Earth Tomorrow’, 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: ‘Transportation Infrastructure: Central Artery/Tunnel Project Faces Financial Uncertainties’ (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

Aguerrebere, Y.: ‘Case study of home-school visits’. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2009

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

Feeney, K.: ‘Salads, Sandwiches, And Parking’New York Times, 2008, p. NJ6.

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