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]

P.J. Bowler, Darwin’s Originality, Science. 323 (2009) 223–226.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Catlow, A. Fisher, Marshall Stoneham (1940-2011), Nature. 471 (2011) 306.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.J. London, J. Kimmelman, M.E. Emborg, Research ethics. Beyond access vs. protection in trials of innovative therapies, Science. 328 (2010) 829–830.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.E. Bassett, G.A. Milne, J.X. Mitrovica, P.U. Clark, Ice sheet and solid Earth influences on far-field sea-level histories, Science. 309 (2005) 925–928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Audibert, Mathematics for Informatics and Computer Science, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

D. Xu, D. Du, D. Du, eds., Computing and Combinatorics: 21st International Conference, COCOON 2015, Beijing, China, August 4-6, 2015, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C.E.H. Scott-Conner, J.L. Chassin, Surgical Stapling: Principles and Precautions, in: C.E.H. Scott-Conner (Ed.), Chassin’s Operative Strategy in General Surgery: An Expositive Atlas, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 39–44.

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]

S. Luntz, Astronomers Track Birth Of A Giant, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-track-birth-giant/ (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, Vehicle Safety: Technologies, Challenges, and Research and Development Expenditures for Advanced Air Bags, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. O’Neal, What’s in Your Toolbox?: Examining Tool Choices at Two Middle and Late Woodland-Period Sites on Florida’s Central Gulf Coast, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2016.

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]

S. Kishkovsky, Russian Priest Killed in Church, New York Times. (2009) A8.

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