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]

Hedin, L. O., 2012, “Retrospective. F. Herbert Bormann (1922-2012),” Science, 337(6094), p. 534.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fisher, B., and Costanza, R., 2005, “Environmental Policy: Regional Commitment to Reducing Emissions,” Nature, 438(7066), pp. 301–302.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Paniello, R. C., Day, J. M. D., and Moynier, F., 2012, “Zinc Isotopic Evidence for the Origin of the Moon,” Nature, 490(7420), pp. 376–379.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Bakal, C., Linding, R., Llense, F., Heffern, E., Martin-Blanco, E., Pawson, T., and Perrimon, N., 2008, “Phosphorylation Networks Regulating JNK Activity in Diverse Genetic Backgrounds,” Science, 322(5900), pp. 453–456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Knopf, F. C., 2011, Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of Process and Energy Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

List, B., ed., 2009, Asymmetric Organocatalysis, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bonamonte, D., Verni, P., Filoni, A., and Angelini, G., 2016, “Dermatitis Caused by Molluscs,” Aquatic Dermatology: Biotic, Chemical and Physical Agents, D. Bonamonte, and G. Angelini, eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 105–113.

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, D., 2016, “28 Things Dogs Should Never Eat,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/28-things-dogs-should-never-eat/. [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, 2016, FACE Recognition Technology: FBI Should Better Ensure Privacy and Accuracy [Reissued on August 3, 2016], GAO-16-267, 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]

Lee, M. Y.-L., 2009, “The Intellectual Origins of Lin Yutang’s Cultural Internationalism, 1928–1938,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park.

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]

Poniewozik, J., 2017, “A Hollywood Snub To a Celebrity in Chief,” New York Times, p. A16.

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