How to format your references using the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Jeltsch A (2010) Molecular biology. Phylogeny of methylomes. Science 328:837–838

A journal article with 2 authors

Heinrich A, Loth S (2011) Physics. A logical use for atoms. Science 332:1039–1040

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu WW, Mazor O, Wilson RI (2015) Thermosensory processing in the Drosophila brain. Nature 519:353–357

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Aldeco-Perez E, Rosenthal AJ, Donnadieu B, et al (2009) Isolation of a C5-deprotonated imidazolium, a crystalline “abnormal” N-heterocyclic carbene. Science 326:556–559

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

New TR (2012) Hymenoptera and Conservation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Budruk M, Phillips R (2011) Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Bahadur R, Samuels WB (2011) Drinking Water Critical Infrastructure and Its Protection. In: Clark RM, Hakim S, Ostfeld A (eds) Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection. Springer, New York, NY, pp 65–85

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 Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Diverse Ecosystems Control Infectious Diseases. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/diverse-ecosystems-control-infectious-diseases/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1978) Questionable Need for All Schools Planned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 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

Song H (2006) Systematics of Cyrtacanthacridinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) with a Focus on the Genus Schistocerca Stål 1873: Evolution of Locust Phase Polyphenism and Study of Insect Genitalia. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Koblin J, Grynbaum MM (2017) Kelly May Get Morning Slot, Shaking Up ‘Today.’ New York Times B4

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 Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy
Abbreviation	J. Mod. Power Syst. Clean Energy
ISSN (print)	2196-5625
ISSN (online)	2196-5420
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment