How to format your references using the Resource-Efficient Technologies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Resource-Efficient Technologies. 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

[1]

K. Emanuel, Retrospective. Edward N. Lorenz (1917-2008), Science 320 (2008) 1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Liemert, A. Kienle, Exact and efficient solution of the radiative transport equation for the semi-infinite medium, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2018.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Pan, Y. Xiong, T.A. Steitz, How the CCA-adding enzyme selects adenine over cytosine at position 76 of tRNA, Science 330 (2010) 937–940.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.V. Harter, K.A. Gardner, D. Falush, D.L. Lentz, R.A. Bye, L.H. Rieseberg, Origin of extant domesticated sunflowers in eastern North America, Nature 430 (2004) 201–205.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.S. Cantrell, C. Cosner, Spatial Ecology via Reaction-Diffusion Equations, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

R. Schumacher, Fetal Radiology: A Diagnostic Atlas, 2nd Edition, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L.E. Ponsky, G. Vricella, Prostate Surgery and the Evolution to Minimally Invasive Therapies, in: L.E. Ponsky, D.B. Fuller, R.M. Meier, C. Ma (Eds.), Robotic Radiosurgery. Treating Prostate Cancer and Related Genitourinary Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 41–47.

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 Resource-Efficient Technologies.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Middle Eastern Organization Requests First Ever Withdrawal From The “Doomsday” Seed Vault, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/middle-eastern-organization-requests-first-ever-withdrawal-doomsday-seed-vault/ (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, Highway Needs: An Evaluation of DOT’s Process for Assessing the Nation’s Highway Needs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.M. Akiyama, Taste Detection in Post-Laryngectomy Head and Neck Cancer Survivors and Its Effect on Dietary Intake and Malnutrition Status, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

I. Nechepurenko, Kremlin Group Viewed As a Propaganda Mill, New York Times (2017) A11.

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	Resource-Efficient Technologies
ISSN (print)	2405-6537
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