How to format your references using the International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Schilling, G.: ASTRONOMY: Neighborhood Gamma Ray Burst Boosts Theory. Science. 289, 29 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Molloy, J.E., Veigel, C.: Biophysics. Myosin motors walk the walk. Science. 300, 2045–2046 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Kang, H., Koh, D.-Y., Lee, H.: Nondestructive natural gas hydrate recovery driven by air and carbon dioxide. Sci. Rep. 4, 6616 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Van Eck, S., Goriely, S., Jorissen, A., Plez, B.: Discovery of three lead-rich stars. Nature. 412, 793–795 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Freeman, R.L.: Telecommunication System Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2005)

An edited book

Pfeifer, T., Bellavista, P. eds: Wired-Wireless Multimedia Networks and Services Management: 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2009, Venice, Italy, October 26-27, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Russell, C.T.: The coupling of the solar wind to the Earth’s magnetosphere. In: Daglis, I.A. (ed.) Space Weather- Physics and Effects. pp. 103–130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

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 Energy and Environmental Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Clouds Of Water Vapour Detected Just 7 Light-Years Away, https://www.iflscience.com/space/clouds-water-vapour-detected-just-7-light-years-away/

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: Maritime Administration: Proceeds from the Sale of Obsolete Vessels Were Accounted for, Allocated, and Disbursed Consistent with Applicable Law. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2017)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nunn, T.N.: A Puer–Senex Archetypal Model of the Therapeutic Relationship, (2014)

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

Times, T.N.Y.: What Else Is on the Ballot in the U.S.? Minimum Wage, Death Penalty and Guns, (2016)

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	International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering
Abbreviation	Int. J. Energy Environ. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2008-9163
ISSN (online)	2251-6832
Scope	General Energy Environmental Engineering