How to format your references using the Progress in Energy and Combustion Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Dahl-Jensen D. CLIMATE CHANGE: Enhanced: The Greenland Ice Sheet Reacts. Science 2000;289:404–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Helms JA, Schneider RA. Cranial skeletal biology. Nature 2003;423:326–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Alboussière T, Deguen R, Melzani M. Melting-induced stratification above the Earth’s inner core due to convective translation. Nature 2010;466:744–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Tsang KH, Lai SK, Li Q, Yung WH, Liu H, Mak PHS, et al. The nucleosome assembly protein TSPYL2 regulates the expression of NMDA receptor subunits GluN2A and GluN2B. Sci Rep 2014;4:3654.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Maillard P. Competitive Quality Strategies. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Farnell J. The Politics of EU-China Economic Relations: An Uneasy Partnership. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Quattrocolo S. The Right to Information in EU Legislation. In: Ruggeri S, editor. Human Rights in European Criminal Law: New Developments in European Legislation and Case Law after the Lisbon Treaty, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 81–93.

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 Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Nuclear Fusion Reactions See Net Gain in Energy. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/nuclear-fusion-reactions-see-net-gain-energy/ (accessed October 30, 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. Embedded Computer Systems: C-17 Software Development Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wadhwa PH. Secure building automation system using Tesla protocol. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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. Justices Weigh Limits on Punitive Damages. New York Times 2006:A17.

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	Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
Abbreviation	Prog. Energy Combust. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0360-1285
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Energy Engineering and Power Technology Fuel Technology