How to format your references using the Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar. 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

Stearns, T. (2015). Cell biology. Centrioles, in absentia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6239), 1091–1092.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zubkov, M. V., & Tarran, G. A. (2008). High bacterivory by the smallest phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nature, 455(7210), 224–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pertea, M., Salzberg, S. L., & Gardner, M. J. (2000). Finding genes in Plasmodium falciparum. Nature, 404(6773), 34; discussion 34-5.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bita, I., Yang, J. K. W., Jung, Y. S., Ross, C. A., Thomas, E. L., & Berggren, K. K. (2008). Graphoepitaxy of self-assembled block copolymers on two-dimensional periodic patterned templates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5891), 939–943.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Desmond, K. K. (2011). Ideas about Art. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Radev, D. (Ed.). (2013). Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation: The Green Book (Vol. 2). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Casselman, B. (2014). Structure constants of Kac–Moody Lie algebras. In R. Howe, M. Hunziker, & J. F. Willenbring (Eds.), Symmetry: Representation Theory and Its Applications: In Honor of Nolan R. Wallach (pp. 55–83). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 13). World’s First Solar Cycle Path Is Performing Better Than Anticipated. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-first-solar-cycle-path-surprisingly-successful/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (2008). Health Information Technology: HHS Is Pursuing Efforts to Advance Nationwide Implementation, but Has Not Yet Completed a National Strategy (No. GAO-08-499T). 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

Shaker, G. (2008). Off the track: The full-time nontenure -track faculty experience in English (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Borden, S. (2016, August 31). How the Game Became One With the Rocket’s Red Glare. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Stearns 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Stearns 2015; Zubkov and Tarran 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Zubkov and Tarran 2008)
Three or more authors: (Bita et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar
Abbreviation	Renewables
ISSN (online)	2198-994X
Scope