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

Daily, G.C.: Ecological forecasts. Nature. 411, 245 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Reznick, D.N., Ricklefs, R.E.: Darwin’s bridge between microevolution and macroevolution. Nature. 457, 837–842 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Blackburn, E.H., Epel, E.S., Lin, J.: Human telomere biology: A contributory and interactive factor in aging, disease risks, and protection. Science. 350, 1193–1198 (2015)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van Beek, J.D., Beaulieu, L., Schäfer, H., Demura, M., Asakura, T., Meier, B.H.: Solid-state NMR determination of the secondary structure of Samia cynthia ricini silk. Nature. 405, 1077–1079 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sandén, B.I.: Design of Multithreaded Software. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Peters, J.F., Skowron, A., Dubois, D., Grzymała-Busse, J.W., Inuiguchi, M., Polkowski, L. eds: Transactions on Rough Sets II: Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Nikodem, M.: DSA Signature Scheme Immune to the Fault Cryptanalysis. In: Grimaud, G. and Standaert, F.-X. (eds.) Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications: 8th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2008, London, UK, September 8-11, 2008. Proceedings. pp. 61–73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

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.: Learning To Drink Is Hard Work- Who’d Have Trunk It?, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/learning-drink-hard-work-who’d-have-trunk-it/

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: Procurement Equipment for New York Postal Data Center. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1974)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Othmanawny, G.: Soaked and Unsoaked Performance of Crushed Gravel and Limestone Aggregates, (2017)

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

Dominus, S.: Singing Together Again, (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