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

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

[1]

Halpern JP. Astronomy. Gamma-ray pulsars old and new. Science 2009;325:821–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Destexhe A, Contreras D. Neuronal computations with stochastic network states. Science 2006;314:85–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mayor M, Lovis C, Santos NC. Doppler spectroscopy as a path to the detection of Earth-like planets. Nature 2014;513:328–35.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Berry N, Davis C, Jenkins A, Wood D, Minor P, Schild G, et al. Vaccine safety. Analysis of oral polio vaccine CHAT stocks. Nature 2001;410:1046–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cliteur P. The Secular Outlook. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Ducros A, Favre C, Nicaise J, editors. Berkovich Spaces and Applications. vol. 2119. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ebara M, Kotsuchibashi Y, Uto K, Aoyagi T, Kim Y-J, Narain R, et al. Smart Nanofibers. In: Kotsuchibashi Y, Narain R, Idota N, Kim Y-J, Hoffman JM, Uto K, et al., editors. Smart Biomaterials, Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2014, p. 189–235.

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 Hydrogen Energy.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. People With Bipolar Symptoms Wait Six Years On Average For Treatment. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/people-with-bipolar-symptoms-wait-six-years-on-average-for-treatment/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Space Station: Delays in Dealing With Space Debris May Reduce Safety and Increase Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Veru PT. The National-Dobro Guitar Company: How the resonator guitar survived the age of electric amplification. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2009.

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

[1]

Billard M. Yogi Guardians, On a Healing Mission. New York Times 2011:MB4.

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 Hydrogen Energy
Abbreviation	Int. J. Hydrogen Energy
ISSN (print)	0360-3199
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Fuel Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Condensed Matter Physics