How to format your references using the Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Materials for Renewable and Sustainable 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

Sarnthein, M.: Paleoclimate. Northern meltwater pulses, CO2, and changes in Atlantic convection. Science. 331, 156–158 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Koocher, G.P., Keith-Spiegel, P.: Peers nip misconduct in the bud. Nature. 466, 438–440 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, I.A., Roberts, R.W., Szostak, J.W.: The emergence of competition between model protocells. Science. 305, 1474–1476 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bonev, S.A., Schwegler, E., Ogitsu, T., Galli, G.: A quantum fluid of metallic hydrogen suggested by first-principles calculations. Nature. 431, 669–672 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sailor, W.: Making RTI Work. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, USA (2009)

An edited book

Tatnall, A. ed: Reflections on the History of Computing: Preserving Memories and Sharing Stories. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Roussopoulos, N., Utz, W.: Design Semantics on Accessibility in Unstructured Data Environments. In: Karagiannis, D., Mayr, H.C., and Mylopoulos, J. (eds.) Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling: Concepts, Methods and Tools. pp. 79–101. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy.

Blog post

Hale, T.: World’s First Supersized Manned Mech Takes Its First Steps

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: Financial Management Systems: Status of OMB’s Review of Financial System Projects. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2012)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Kafi, W.: The effects of patient demographic variables on cesarean section-related surgical site infection rates, (2013)

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

Apuzzo, M., Schmidt, M.S.: Comey Tells How Trump Persisted in Pleas to F.B.I, (2017)

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	Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Abbreviation	Mater. Renew. Sustain. Energy
ISSN (print)	2194-1459
ISSN (online)	2194-1467
Scope	Fuel Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry