How to format your references using the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. 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

[1]

Evans, P., 2012, “Biochemistry. Resolving Some Old Problems in Protein Crystallography,” Science, 336(6084), pp. 986–987.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kodama, R., and Fast-Ignitor Consortium, 2002, “Fast Heating Scalable to Laser Fusion Ignition,” Nature, 418(6901), pp. 933–934.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Knudson, M. D., Desjarlais, M. P., and Dolan, D. H., 2008, “Shock-Wave Exploration of the High-Pressure Phases of Carbon,” Science, 322(5909), pp. 1822–1825.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Balili, R., Hartwell, V., Snoke, D., Pfeiffer, L., and West, K., 2007, “Bose-Einstein Condensation of Microcavity Polaritons in a Trap,” Science, 316(5827), pp. 1007–1010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kill, R., 2012, The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Shultz, L., and Viczko, M., eds., 2016, Assembling and Governing the Higher Education Institution: Democracy, Social Justice and Leadership in Global Higher Education, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pfeiffer, F., 2008, “Power Transmission,” Mechanical System Dynamics, F. Pfeiffer, ed., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 213–328.

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 Solar Energy Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

Davis, J., 2015, “Owl-Inspired Tech Could Make Wind Turbines Quieter,” IFLScience.

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, 2006, Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan, GAO-06-1100T, 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]

Martinez, N. M., 2010, “The Influence of Formal and Informal Support on the Quality of Life of Individuals with a Severe Mental Illness,” 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]

Kanter, J., 2016, “Europe’s Parliament Votes to Suspend Talks With Turkey on Joining E.U,” New York Times, p. A6.

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 Solar Energy Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Sol. Energy Eng.
ISSN (print)	0199-6231
ISSN (online)	1528-8986
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment