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

Ruddiman, W.F.: Climate. A paleoclimatic enigma? Science. 328, 838–839 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Metz, M., Fütterer, J.: Biodiversity (Communications arising): suspect evidence of transgenic contamination. Nature. 416, 600–1; discussion 600, 602 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

van den Ent, F., Amos, L.A., Löwe, J.: Prokaryotic origin of the actin cytoskeleton. Nature. 413, 39–44 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

de Ruiter, P.C., Wolters, V., Moore, J.C., Winemiller, K.O.: Ecology. Food web ecology: playing Jenga and beyond. Science. 309, 68–71 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saleh, J.H., Castet, J.-F.: Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2011)

An edited book

Sokołowska, K., Sowiński, P. eds: Symplasmic Transport in Vascular Plants. Springer, New York, NY (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Boschen, J.S., Theis, D., Ruedenberg, K., Windus, T.L.: Accurate ab initio potential energy curves and spectroscopic properties of the four lowest singlet states of C2. In: Wilson, A.K., Peterson, K.A., and Woon, D.E. (eds.) Thom H. Dunning, Jr: A Festschrift from Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. pp. 47–58. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2015)

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

Andrew, E.: A New State Of Matter: Quantum Spin Liquids Explained, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-state-matter-quantum-spin-liquids-explained/

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: Health Care Access: Programs for Underserved Populations Could Be Improved. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2000)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Levy, M.R.: Visual perception and Gestalt grouping in the landscape: Are Gestalt grouping prinicples reliable indicators of visual preference?, (2009)

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

Rothenberg, B.: Remodeling the U.S. Fed Cup Team, (2016)

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