How to format your references using the Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks. 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]

R. Ramesar, Genomics: African dawn, Nature 517 (2015) 276–277.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Kussell, S. Leibler, Phenotypic diversity, population growth, and information in fluctuating environments, Science 309 (2005) 2075–2078.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Barkeshli, E. Berg, S. Kivelson, Coherent transmutation of electrons into fractionalized anyons, Science 346 (2014) 722–725.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Xiao, Q. Zong, Y. Wang, Z. He, Z. Su, C. Yang, Q. Zhou, Generation of proton aurora by magnetosonic waves, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5190.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.K. Alexandridis, A.D. Zapranis, Wavelet Neural Networks, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

M. Helfert, B. Donnellan, eds., Practical Aspects of Design Science: European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2011, Leixlip, Ireland, October 14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Bliem, S. Woltran, Complexity of Secure Sets, in: E.W. Mayr (Ed.), Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 41st International Workshop, WG 2015, Garching, Germany, June 17-19, 2015, Revised Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016: pp. 64–77.

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 Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Italian Daredevil Wingsuits Over Active Chilean Volcano, IFLScience (2016).

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, Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Progress Made in Enrolling Workers and Activating Credentials but Evaluation Plan Needed to Help Inform the Implementation of Card Readers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.R. Swinford, Adapted dance - connecting mind, body and soul, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2012.

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]

M. Kelly, THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Political Memo; Those Chicken Georges And What They Mean, New York Times (1992) A21.

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	Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks
Abbreviation	Sustain. Energy Grids Netw.
ISSN (print)	2352-4677
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering