How to format your references using the International Journal of Ambient Energy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Ambient Energy. 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

Robinson, Andrew. 2012. “Archaeology: A Clash of Symbols.” Nature 483 (7387): 27–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Page, Scott L., and R. Scott Hawley. 2003. “Chromosome Choreography: The Meiotic Ballet.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301 (5634): 785–789.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gambetta, Maria Cristina, Katarzyna Oktaba, and Jürg Müller. 2009. “Essential Role of the Glycosyltransferase Sxc/Ogt in Polycomb Repression.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5936): 93–96.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pallecchi, E., F. Lafont, V. Cavaliere, F. Schopfer, D. Mailly, W. Poirier, and A. Ouerghi. 2014. “High Electron Mobility in Epitaxial Graphene on 4H-SiC(0001) via Post-Growth Annealing under Hydrogen.” Scientific Reports 4 (April): 4558.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Molimard, Jérôme. 2016. Experimental Mechanics of Solids and Structures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ren, Kui, Xue Liu, Weifa Liang, Ming Xu, Xiaohua Jia, and Kai Xing, eds. 2013. Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications: 8th International Conference, WASA 2013, Zhangjiajie, China, August 7-10, 2013. Proceedings. Vol. 7992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Jingchuan, and Weidong Chen. 2010. “A Novel Localization System Based on Infrared Vision for Outdoor Mobile Robot.” In Life System Modeling and Intelligent Computing: International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2010, and International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2010, Wuxi, China, September 17-20, 2010. Proceedings, Part III, edited by Kang Li, Li Jia, Xin Sun, Minrui Fei, and George W. Irwin, 33–41. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 International Journal of Ambient Energy.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “We Must Defend Science If We Want A Prosperous Future.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/we-must-defend-science-if-we-want-prosperous-future/.

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. 2014. Federal Student Loans: Impact of Loan Limit Increases on College Prices Is Difficult to Discern. GAO-14-7. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alnuaimi, Abdulla N. 2017. “The Outside-In Method for Sustainable Design Within the Built Environment Spatial Layers.” Doctoral dissertation, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Sisario, Ben. 2016. “Frank Ocean Takes Unusual Journey to No. 1.” New York Times, August 30.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Robinson 2012; Page and Hawley 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Page and Hawley 2003)
Three authors: (Gambetta, Oktaba, and Müller 2009)
4 or more authors: (Pallecchi et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Ambient Energy
Abbreviation	Int. J. Ambient Energy
ISSN (print)	0143-0750
ISSN (online)	2162-8246
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Building and Construction