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

Amelino-Camelia, G.: Theoretical physics: walk the Planck. Nature. 448, 257 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Joshi, N.S., Jacks, T.: Immunology. Guilty by association. Science. 339, 1160–1161 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, C., Yang, Y.-P., Duan, Y.-W.: Pollen sensitivity to ultraviolet-B (UV-B) suggests floral structure evolution in alpine plants. Sci. Rep. 4, 4520 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Maund, J.R., Smartt, S.J., Kudritzki, R.P., Podsiadlowski, P., Gilmore, G.F.: The massive binary companion star to the progenitor of supernova 1993J. Nature. 427, 129–131 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Drake, P.P., Fabozzi, F.J.: Foundations and Applications of the Time Value of Money. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2009)

An edited book

De Angeli, A., Bannon, L., Marti, P., Bordin, S. eds: COOP 2016: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 23-27 May 2016, Trento, Italy. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Lorenzini, J., Giugni, M.: Long-Term Unemployed Youth in Switzerland: Coping with Exclusion from the Labor Market in a Country with Low Unemployment. In: Lahusen, C. and Giugni, M. (eds.) Experiencing Long-Term Unemployment in Europe: Youth on the Edge. pp. 73–106. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London (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

Andrew, E.: Huge Gas Clouds Discovered Orbiting Black Holes, https://www.iflscience.com/space/huge-gas-clouds-discovered-orbiting-black-holes/

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: Review of the Transportation Security Administration’s Air Cargo Screening Exemptions Report. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2008)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhou, Y.: Resource Management in Wireless Networks: Queue Management and Scheduling in Mesh Networks and Multi-Access Control in Internetworking Systems, (2010)

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

Yablonsky, L.: Hotel Rooms Become Overnight Stars, (2007)

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

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