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]

A.T. Winfree, Oscillating systems. On emerging coherence, Science 298 (2002) 2336–2337.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.E. Ozanne, C.N. Hales, Lifespan: catch-up growth and obesity in male mice, Nature 427 (2004) 411–412.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Li de la Sierra-Gallay, O. Pellegrini, C. Condon, Structural basis for substrate binding, cleavage and allostery in the tRNA maturase RNase Z, Nature 433 (2005) 657–661.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.F. Guo, J. Tong, F. Hannan, L. Luo, Y. Zhong, A neurofibromatosis-1-regulated pathway is required for learning in Drosophila, Nature 403 (2000) 895–898.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Kölle, Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

B. Kegl, Green Diesel Engines: Biodiesel Usage in Diesel Engines, Springer, London, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Hajiesmaeili, B. Bagherinakhjavanlo, J. Dehmeshki, T. Ellis, Segmentation of the Hippocampus for Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease, in: G. Bebis, R. Boyle, B. Parvin, D. Koracin, C. Fowlkes, S. Wang, M.-H. Choi, S. Mantler, J. Schulze, D. Acevedo, K. Mueller, M. Papka (Eds.), Advances in Visual Computing: 8th International Symposium, ISVC 2012, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 16-18, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 42–50.

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]

E. Andrew, Why Do Only Some People Get ‘Skin Orgasms’ From Listening To Music?, 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, James Webb Space Telescope: Project Meeting Commitments but Current Technical, Cost, and Schedule Challenges Could Affect Continued Progress, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.T. Kaardal, Decoding the Computations of Sensory Neurons, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 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]

J. Branch, B. Weiser, Ex-Player Charged in Sale of Pills to Boogaard, New York Times (2014) B9.

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