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]

Gregersen PK. Genetics. A genomic road map for complex human disease. Science 2014;343:1087–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Habibi MK, Lu Y. Crack propagation in bamboo’s hierarchical cellular structure. Sci Rep 2014;4:5598.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Giles S, Friedman M, Brazeau MD. Osteichthyan-like cranial conditions in an Early Devonian stem gnathostome. Nature 2015;520:82–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Burton M, Allard P, Muré F, La Spina A. Magmatic gas composition reveals the source depth of slug-driven strombolian explosive activity. Science 2007;317:227–30.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Zack GM. Financial Statement Fraud. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Erkan D, Pierangeli SS, editors. Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Insights and Highlights from the 13th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Samson M, Langevin L. Le rayonnement des droits de la personne en droit privé québécois: Que de chemin parcouru… mais que de chemin à parcourir! In: Trstenjak V, Weingerl P, editors. The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Private Law, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 143–86.

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]

Andrew E. Scientists Discover Teeny Tiny Rare Species Of Shark. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/second-specimen-one-worlds-rarest-sharks-discovered/ (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. Inspectors General: Information on Resources and Selected Accomplishments of 18 Inspectors General. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Aggarwal E. South Asian women’s attitudes toward help-seeking behaviors. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Hometown; Perot Isn’t Necessarily Texarkana’s Favorite Son. New York Times 1992:128.

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