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]

M.A. Nowak, John Forbes Nash (1928-2015), Nature. 522 (2015) 420.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Boltasseva, H.A. Atwater, Materials science. Low-loss plasmonic metamaterials, Science. 331 (2011) 290–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Zavatta, S. Viciani, M. Bellini, Quantum-to-classical transition with single-photon-added coherent states of light, Science. 306 (2004) 660–662.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Wang, J.K. Keum, A. Hiltner, E. Baer, B. Freeman, A. Rozanski, A. Galeski, Confined crystallization of polyethylene oxide in nanolayer assemblies, Science. 323 (2009) 757–760.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee, Continuous Direct-Heat Rotary Dryers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Z.-H. Zhou, H. Li, Q. Yang, eds., Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 11th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2007, Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Camilleri, A. Damianou, H. Jackson, N. Lawrence, T. Prescott, iCub Visual Memory Inspector: Visualising the iCub’s Thoughts, in: N.F. Lepora, A. Mura, M. Mangan, P.F.M.J. Verschure, M. Desmulliez, T.J. Prescott (Eds.), Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 5th International Conference, Living Machines 2016, Edinburgh, UK, July 19-22, 2016. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 48–57.

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]

K. Evans, Snake Quickly Regrets Attempt To Eat Porcupine, IFLScience. (2017).

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 Research: Systematic Selection and Evaluation Processes Needed for Research Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Janairo, Recovering Together: A Psychosocial Support Group for Young Adults with Schizophrenia and the People in Their Lives: A Grant Proposal, 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]

K. Crow, I Say Yip-Yip, You Say Ruff-Ruff: Small Dogs Lobby for Own Dog Run, New York Times. (2002) 145.

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
Scope

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