How to format your references using the Journal of Energy Resources Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Energy Resources Technology. 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]

Prasher, R., 2010, “Materials Science. Graphene Spreads the Heat,” Science, 328(5975), pp. 185–186.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Braun-Munzinger, P., and Stachel, J., 2007, “The Quest for the Quark-Gluon Plasma,” Nature, 448(7151), pp. 302–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Grima, J. N., Attard, D., and Gatt, R., 2011, “Materials Science. Unusual Thermoelastic Properties of Methanol Monohydrate,” Science, 331(6018), pp. 687–688.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Siveter, D. J., Sutton, M. D., Briggs, D. E. G., and Siveter, D. J., 2003, “An Ostracode Crustacean with Soft Parts from the Lower Silurian,” Science, 302(5651), pp. 1749–1751.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Phelan, J., 2013, Reading the American Novel 1920-2010, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Gabbay, D. M., 2010, Logical Tools for Handling Change in Agent-Based Systems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Abdinia, S., van Roermund, A. H. M., and Cantatore, E., 2015, “Analogue and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design,” Design of Organic Complementary Circuits and Systems on Foil, A. van Roermund, and E. Cantatore, eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 69–91.

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 Journal of Energy Resources Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Hale, T., 2016, “This Number Is Illegal To Possess Or Distribute In The USA,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/possessing-and-distributing-particular-number-illegal/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-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, 1998, Civil Agencies Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments, AA-98-29(1), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Harris, A. N., 2017, “Deadly Force: Perceptions of Police and Exploration of Strategies Used by African American Mothers to Protect Their Sons,” Doctoral dissertation, 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

[1]

Bowley, G., 2016, “Master of Trades, If Not Art, Says He Was Duped,” New York Times, p. A1.

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	Journal of Energy Resources Technology
Abbreviation	J. Energy Resour. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0195-0738
ISSN (online)	1528-8994
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Energy Engineering and Power Technology Fuel Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Mechanical Engineering