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

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

Bohannon, John. 2015. “Scientific Societies. Torture Report Prompts APA Apology.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349 (6245): 221–222.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, D. H., and J. A. Gupta. 2010. “Tunable Field Control over the Binding Energy of Single Dopants by a Charged Vacancy in GaAs.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330 (6012): 1807–1810.

A journal article with 3 authors

Locher, Kaspar P., Randal B. Bass, and Douglas C. Rees. 2003. “Structural Biology. Breaching the Barrier.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301 (5633): 603–604.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Stevenson, R. M., R. J. Young, P. Atkinson, K. Cooper, D. A. Ritchie, and A. J. Shields. 2006. “A Semiconductor Source of Triggered Entangled Photon Pairs.” Nature 439 (7073): 179–182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meyer, Veronika R. 2013. Pitfalls and Errors of HPLC in Pictures. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Allen, Matt, Randall L. Mayes, and Daniel Rixen, eds. 2016. Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Herndon, J. Marvin. 2007. “Comment on R. D. Schuiling’s Paper.” In Neutrino Geophysics: Proceedings of Neutrino Sciences 2005, edited by Stephen T. Dye, 51–51. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Sustainable Energy.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2016. “Human-Pig ‘Chimeras’ May Provide Vital Transplant Organs, But They Raise Ethical Dilemmas.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/humanpig-chimeras-may-provide-vital-transplant-organs-but-they-raise-ethical-dilemmas/.

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. 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Potential for Widespread Disruption Calls for Strong Leadership and Partnerships. AIMD-98-85. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barnard, Sarah. 2015. “Police Officers’ Attitudes about Rape Victims.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Vecsey, George. 2011. “Mets Thank Troops In a Meaningful Setting.” New York Times, May 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon 2015; Lee and Gupta 2010).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Gupta 2010)
Three authors: (Locher, Bass, and Rees 2003)
4 or more authors: (Stevenson et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Sustainable Energy
Abbreviation	Int. J. Sustain. Energy
ISSN (print)	1478-6451
ISSN (online)	1478-646X
Scope	Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes Process Chemistry and Technology General Energy Fuel Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment