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

Bennetzen, Jeffrey. 2002. “The Rice Genome. Opening the Door to Comparative Plant Biology.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5565): 60–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jensen, Eric L. N., and Rachel Akeson. 2014. “Misaligned Protoplanetary Disks in a Young Binary Star System.” Nature 511 (7511): 567–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubash, Navroz K., Marc Fleurbaey, and Sivan Kartha. 2014. “Climate Policy. Political Implications of Data Presentation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 345 (6192): 36–37.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

He, Wei, Tao Zhu, Xiang-Qun Zhang, Hai-Tao Yang, and Zhao-Hua Cheng. 2013. “Ultrafast Demagnetization Enhancement in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB Magnetic Tunneling Junction Driven by Spin Tunneling Current.” Scientific Reports 3 (October): 2883.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mason, Robert P. 2013. Trace Metals in Aquatic Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Roberts, Laura Weiss, ed. 2013. The Academic Medicine Handbook: A Guide to Achievement and Fulfillment for Academic Faculty. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lau, Kah Chun, Larry A. Curtiss, Maria K. Y. Chan, and Jeffrey P. Greeley. 2014. “Atomistic and First Principles: Computational Studies of LiO2 Batteries.” In The Lithium Air Battery: Fundamentals, edited by Nobuyuki Imanishi, Alan C. Luntz, and Peter Bruce, 159–177. New York, NY: 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. 2016. “Students Are Using ‘Smart’ Spy Technology To Cheat In Exams.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1999. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Compliance Status Information on Biomedical Equipment. T-AIMD-00-26. 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

Strong, Martell. 2013. “Investigation and Characterization of Features on a Cretaceous-Paleogene Seismic Horizon in Northern Louisiana.” Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Kelly, Thomas. 2006. “Performing Miracles, With Wrench and Rivet.” New York Times, April 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bennetzen 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bennetzen 2002; Jensen and Akeson 2014).

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

Two authors: (Jensen and Akeson 2014)
Three authors: (Dubash, Fleurbaey, and Kartha 2014)
4 or more authors: (He et al. 2013)

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