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]

Faigman, D. L., 2002, “Science and the Law. Is Science Different for Lawyers?,” Science, 297(5580), pp. 339–340.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Barbi, E., and Vaupel, J. W., 2005, “Comment on ‘Inflammatory Exposure and Historical Changes in Human Life-Spans,’” Science, 308(5729), pp. 1743; author reply 1743.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rich, P. D., Liaw, H.-P., and Lee, A. K., 2014, “Place Cells. Large Environments Reveal the Statistical Structure Governing Hippocampal Representations,” Science, 345(6198), pp. 814–817.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Bowman, N. M., Congdon, S., Mvalo, T., Patel, J. C., Escamilla, V., Emch, M., Martinson, F., Hoffman, I., Meshnick, S. R., and Juliano, J. J., 2013, “Comparative Population Structure of Plasmodium Falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein NANP Repeat Lengths in Lilongwe, Malawi,” Sci. Rep., 3, p. 1990.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Broekaert, J. A. C., 2005, Analytical Atomic Spectrometry with Flames and Plasmas, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

[1]

Turksen, K., ed., 2015, Biology in Stem Cell Niche, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Guan, J., Yao, S., Xu, C., and Zhang, H., 2014, “Design and Implementation of Network User Behaviors Analysis Based on Hadoop for Big Data,” Applications and Techniques in Information Security: 5th International Conference, ATIS 2014, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 26-28, 2014. Proceedings, L. Batten, G. Li, W. Niu, and M. Warren, eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 44–55.

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]

Andrew, E., 2015, “Japan Is Turning Its Disused Golf Courses Into Solar Power Fields,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/japan-tuning-its-disused-golf-courses-solar-power-fields/. [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, 1987, ADP Systems: Examinations of Non-Federal Hospital Information Systems, IMTEC-87-21, 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]

Ortiz-Quiusky, S., 2015, “Substance Abuse, Smoking, and Depression among Military Veterans,” 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]

Greenhouse, L., 2006, “Our Creation, Our Concern,” New York Times, p. WK1.

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