How to format your references using the Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. 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]

Abbott A. Dementia: a problem for our age. Nature 2011;475:S2-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gravitz L, Pincock S. Sickle-cell disease. Nature 2014;515:S1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schaller MF, Wright JD, Kent DV. Atmospheric PCO₂ perturbations associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Science 2011;331:1404–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Vogeli KM, Jin S-W, Martin GR, Stainier DYR. A common progenitor for haematopoietic and endothelial lineages in the zebrafish gastrula. Nature 2006;443:337–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schorn C, Taylor B. NMR Spectroscopy: Data Acquisition. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Ward AC, editor. STAT Inhibitors in Cancer. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Calafiore GC, Carlone L, Dellaert F. Lagrangian Duality in Complex Pose Graph Optimization. In: Goldengorin B, editor. Optimization and Its Applications in Control and Data Sciences: In Honor of Boris T. Polyak’s 80th Birthday, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 139–84.

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 Technologies and Assessments.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Live Webcast of Supernova. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/live-webcast-supernova-candidate/ (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. Education Grants: Promise Neighborhoods Promotes Collaboration but Needs National Evaluation Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yao D. In situ activity of NAC11-7 roseobacters in coastal waters off the Chesapeake Bay based on ftsZ expression. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.

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]

Williams J. Outside The Bars. New York Times 2016:BR4.

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 Technologies and Assessments
Abbreviation	Sustain. Energy Technol. Assessments
ISSN (print)	2213-1388
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment