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]

Ward MD. Materials science. Plastic sandwiches a la carte. Nature 2000;405:293–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Courseaux A, Nahon JL. Birth of two chimeric genes in the Hominidae lineage. Science 2001;291:1293–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Halley JM, Iwasa Y, Vokou D. Comment on “Extinction debt and windows of conservation opportunity in the Brazilian Amazon.” Science 2013;339:271.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Salzberg SL, White O, Peterson J, Eisen JA. Microbial genes in the human genome: lateral transfer or gene loss? Science 2001;292:1903–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Marks KH, Robbins LE, Fernández G, Funkhouser JP, Williams DL. The Handbook of Financing Growth. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Johnson FE, Maehara Y, Browman GP, Margenthaler JA, Audisio RA, Thompson JF, et al., editors. Patient Surveillance After Cancer Treatment. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Leal MA, January CT. Cardiovascular Effects of Methadone. In: Cruciani RA, Knotkova H, editors. Handbook of Methadone Prescribing and Buprenorphine Therapy, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 51–8.

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]

Carpineti A. Earth’s Third Van Allen Radiation Belt Made By A “Space Tsunami.” IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/earths-third-van-allen-radiation-belt-made-by-a-space-tsunami/ (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. National Bureau of Standards Needs Better Management of Its Computer Resources To Improve Program Effectiveness. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Barrett BT. Modernizing Copyright for Equitable Treatment in the Streaming Age. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, 2015.

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]

Otis J. Academy Eases the Angst of Adolescent Refugees. New York Times 2017:A4.

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