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]

Anglin J. Why trapped atoms are attractive. Nature 2000;406:29–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bramble DM, Lieberman DE. Endurance running and the evolution of Homo. Nature 2004;432:345–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Eswaramoorthy SK, Howe JM, Muralidharan G. In situ determination of the nanoscale chemistry and behavior of solid-liquid systems. Science 2007;318:1437–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cauchemez S, Valleron A-J, Boëlle P-Y, Flahault A, Ferguson NM. Estimating the impact of school closure on influenza transmission from Sentinel data. Nature 2008;452:750–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schiesser WE. Spline Collocation Methods for Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Zohuri B. Thermodynamics In Nuclear Power Plant Systems. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Scutari G, Palomar DP, Facchinei F, Pang J-S. Monotone Games for Cognitive Radio Systems. In: Johansson R, Rantzer A, editors. Distributed Decision Making and Control, London: Springer; 2012, p. 83–112.

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]

Hale T. One In Four People Have Sexual Fantasies About AI Voice Assistants Like Siri. IFLScience 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. More Emphasis Needed on Data Analysis Phase of Space Science Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Steigner T. A study of cross -border takeovers: Examining the impact of national culture on internalization benefits, and the implications of early versus late -mover status for bidders and their rivals. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2008.

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]

Whiteside K. Refusing to Let the Seizures Defeat Him. New York Times 2017:B8.

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