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]

Herzberg C. Geochemistry. Food for a volcanic diet. Science 2007;316:378–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Benedito R, Adams RH. Development. Aorta’s cardinal secret. Science 2009;326:242–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Majumdar S, Singh A, Rio DC. The human THAP9 gene encodes an active P-element DNA transposase. Science 2013;339:446–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wei D-J, Liu Q, Zhang H-X, Hu Y, Deng Y, Mahadevan S. Box-covering algorithm for fractal dimension of weighted networks. Sci Rep 2013;3:3049.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Keiser G. FTTX Concepts and Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Ergüven M, Muramatsu T, Bilir A, editors. Midkine: From Embryogenesis to Pathogenesis and Therapy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Delingette H. Biquadratic and Quadratic Springs for Modeling St Venant Kirchhoff Materials. In: Bello F, Edwards PJE, editors. Biomedical Simulation: 4th International Symposium, ISBMS 2008, London, UK, July 7-8, 2008 Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 40–8.

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]

Fang J. Cod Collapse Linked To Rapidly Warming Gulf Waters. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cod-collapse-linked-rapidly-warming-gulf-waters/ (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. Developing State Automated Information Systems To Support Federal Assistance Programs: Problems and Opportunities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Borchardt GM. Making D.C. Democracy’s Capital: Local Activism, the “Federal State”, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2013.

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]

Schwartz ND. A Seer on Banks Raises a Furor on Bonds. New York Times 2011:B1.

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

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