How to format your references using the International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment (IJECE). 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

Benner, S. A., Natural Progression, Nature, vol. 409, no. 6819, p. 459, January 25, 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cooper, B. G. and Goller, F., Multimodal Signals: Enhancement and Constraint of Song Motor Patterns by Visual Display, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 303, no. 5657, pp. 544–46, January 23, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, D. R., Galluzzi, L. and Kroemer, G., Mitochondria and the Autophagy-Inflammation-Cell Death Axis in Organismal Aging, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 333, no. 6046, pp. 1109–12, August 26, 2011.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bast, H., Funke, S., Sanders, P. and Schultes, D., Fast Routing in Road Networks with Transit Nodes, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 316, no. 5824, p. 566, April 27, 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Process Safety in Batch Reaction Systems, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.

An edited book

Kosnik, C., Beck, C., Freese, A. R., and Samaras, A. P. Eds., Making a Difference in Teacher Education Through Self-Study: Studies of Personal, Professional and Program Renewal, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, XXXII, 260 p, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Johnson, C. F. A. and Varma, J., Parameters and Variables, in Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell, J. Varma, Ed., Berkeley, CA: Apress, pp. 43–57, 2015.

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 for a Clean Environment.

Blog post

Andrew, D., A Hidden Code In Our DNA Explains How New Pieces Of Genes Are Made, IFLScience, January 10, 2017.

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, NASA Budget: Potential Shortfalls in Funding NASA’s 5-Year Plan, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-NSIAD-92-18, Mar. 17, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rutherford, K. B., 500 Year Chenier, Architecture, Cultural Identity, and Land Change “Identification in a Dynamic Place,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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

Markoff, J., A Would-Be Father of A.I, New York Times, November 28, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benner, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Benner, 2001; Cooper et al., 2004).

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

Two authors: (Cooper et al., 2004)
Three or more authors: (Bast et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment
ISSN (print)	2150-3621
ISSN (online)	2150-363X
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