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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in 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

[1]

Buckingham S 2004 Bioinformatics: data’s future shock Nature 428 774–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lamb S and Davis P 2003 Cenozoic climate change as a possible cause for the rise of the Andes Nature 425 792–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kalka M B, Smith A R and Kalko E K V 2008 Bats limit arthropods and herbivory in a tropical forest Science 320 71

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Wolfe C J, Solomon S C, Laske G, Collins J A, Detrick R S, Orcutt J A, Bercovici D and Hauri E H 2009 Mantle shear-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian hot spot Science 326 1388–90

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dewulf G, Blanken A and Bult-Spiering M 2012 Strategic Issues in Public-Private Partnerships (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Cao L, Bazzan A L C, Gorodetsky V, Mitkas P A, Weiss G and Yu P S 2010 Agents and Data Mining Interaction: 6th International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction, ADMI 2010, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers vol 5980 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Le Pécheur M, Morrow G and Tanguay R M 2012 Mortalin and Drosophila DmHsp22: Two Mitochondrial Chaperones Regulating Aging and Carcinogenesis Mortalin Biology: Life, Stress and Death ed S C Kaul and R Wadhwa (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 83–95

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.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Ranking Exoplanets By Their Ability To Support Life IFLScience

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 1998 Civil Agencies Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Valencia G M 2015 A Phenomenological Study of Adults Earning a Graduate Degree after Age 60 Doctoral dissertation (La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego)

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]

Brantley B 2017 She’s Doomed, but No One Is Blameless New York Times C2

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
ISSN (online)	2516-1083
Scope