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

Andreae MO (2009) Atmospheric science. A new look at aging aerosols. Science 326:1493–1494

A journal article with 2 authors

Hibberd JM, Quick WP (2002) Characteristics of C4 photosynthesis in stems and petioles of C3 flowering plants. Nature 415:451–454

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang H, Opresko P, Myong S (2014) Single-molecule real-time detection of telomerase extension activity. Sci Rep 4:6391

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tarnopolsky A, Fletcher N, Hollenberg L, et al (2005) Acoustics: the vocal tract and the sound of a didgeridoo. Nature 436:39

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Porter AL, Cunningham SW (2004) Tech Mining. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gervasi O, Murgante B, Misra S, et al (2015) Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015: 15th International Conference, Banff, AB, Canada, June 22-25, 2015, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bildirici IO, Ustun A, Ulugtekin N, et al (2009) Compilation of Digital Elevation Model for Turkey in 3-Arc-Second Resolution by Using SRTM Data Supported with Local Elevation Data. In: Gartner G, Ortag F (eds) Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe: CEE 2009. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 63–76

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

Andrew E (2014) Best Dads In The Animal Kingdom. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/best-dads-animal-kingdom/. 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 (2007) Digital Television Transition: Questions on the DTV Converter Box Subsidy Program and a DTV Inter-Agency Task Force. 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

Andrews M (2014) Health literacy competencies for health professionals: A Delphi study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Belson K, Pilon M (2012) Track Town USA and Meet It Wants to Keep. New York Times D3

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

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