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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 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]

Ledford H. Beyond the Triangle. Nature 2008;452:908–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Palmer MR, Pearson PN. A 23,000-year record of surface water pH and PCO2 in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean. Science 2003;300:480–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cacchione DA, Pratson LF, Ogston AS. The shaping of continental slopes by internal tides. Science 2002;296:724–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Aoki K, Takahashi K, Kaizu K, Matsuda M. A quantitative model of ERK MAP kinase phosphorylation in crowded media. Sci Rep 2013;3:1541.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tran J. The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Göringer HU, editor. RNA Editing. vol. 20. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Müller SM, Steen E-E, Hein A. Inferring Multi-person Presence in Home Sensor Networks. In: Wichert R, Klausing H, editors. Ambient Assisted Living: 8. AAL-Kongress 2015,Frankfurt/M, April 29-30. April, 2015, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 47–56.

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 Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. This Might Be The Slowest Pulsar We’ve Ever Found. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-might-be-the-slowest-pulsar-weve-ever-found/ (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. Working Comfortably With Video Display Terminals. 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]

Sugg J. Small Graces: Mapping a Route of Beauty to the Heart of the World. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2012.

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]

Valerian S. For a Brown, the Comeback Trail Leads Home. New York Times 2013:B17.

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	Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Abbreviation	Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev.
ISSN (print)	1364-0321
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment