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

Baker, M. (2007). Postdoc redefined. Nature, 446(7139), 1114.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bienz, M., & He, X. (2012). Biochemistry. A lipid linchpin for Wnt-Fz docking. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6090), 44–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

London, A. J., Kimmelman, J., & Carlisle, B. (2012). Research ethics. Rethinking research ethics: the case of postmarketing trials. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6081), 544–545.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lo, B., Parham, L., Cedars, M., Fisher, S., Gates, E., Giudice, L., et al. (2010). Research ethics. NIH guidelines for stem cell research and gamete donors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5968), 962–963.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach, J. (2010). Excel® 2010 Power Programming with VBA. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Deutsch, U., & Wolfrum, R. (Eds.). (2009). The European Court of Human Rights Overwhelmed by Applications: Problems and Possible Solutions (Vol. 205). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sadler, D. R. (2009). Transforming Holistic Assessment and Grading into a Vehicle for Complex Learning. In G. Joughin (Ed.), Assessment, Learning and Judgement in Higher Education (pp. 1–19). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Hamilton, K. (2015, September 4). Overgrown Sheep Is Shorn Of 40-Kilogram Fleece. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/overgrown-sheep-shorn-40-kilogram-fleece/. 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. (1969). Education Allowance Grants Made to Trust Territory Government Employees (No. 092692). 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

Packer-Kinlaw, D. (2012). Anxious journeys: Past, present, and construction of identity in American travel writing (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2005, November 29). Justices Reject F.B.I. Translator’s Appeal on Termination. New York Times, p. A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Baker 2007; Bienz and He 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bienz and He 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lo et al. 2010)

About the journal

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