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. Khodakhah, Neuroscience: Decrypting a brain enigma, Nature 526 (2015) 326–327.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.L. Goldsby, T.E. Tullis, Flash heating leads to low frictional strength of crustal rocks at earthquake slip rates, Science 334 (2011) 216–218.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.C. Juanes-Marcos, S.C. Althorpe, E. Wrede, Theoretical study of geometric phase effects in the hydrogen-exchange reaction, Science 309 (2005) 1227–1230.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Cohen, H. Li, J.L. Hougland, M. Mrksich, S.R. Nagel, Using selective withdrawal to coat microparticles, Science 292 (2001) 265–267.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Nagasawa, Physical Chemistry of Polyelectrolyte Solutions: Advances in Chemical Physics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

K. Turksen, ed., Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Wang, A.M. Niknejad, V. Gaudet, K. Iniewski, CMOS IR-UWB Transceiver System Design for Contact-Less Chip Testing Applications, in: A. Tasić, W.A. Serdijn, L.E. Larson, G. Setti (Eds.), Circuits and Systems for Future Generations of Wireless Communications, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009: pp. 85–119.

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]

E. Andrew, Novel Therapy Allows Paraplegic Patients To Regain Voluntary Movement, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/novel-therapy-allows-paraplegic-patients-regain-voluntary-movement/ (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, Automated Welfare Systems: Historical Costs and Projections, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.L. Giles, Faculty mentoring of undergraduate students: A qualitative phenomenological study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2015.

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]

J.R. Oestreich, Revisiting a Conductor’s Early Triumph, With Touches of Mystery and Elegance, New York Times (2016) C5.

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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