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]

Weaver K. Lab life: Scientists are snobs. Nature 2013;495:167–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Frieda KL, Block SM. Direct observation of cotranscriptional folding in an adenine riboswitch. Science 2012;338:397–400.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Faller M, Niederweis M, Schulz GE. The structure of a mycobacterial outer-membrane channel. Science 2004;303:1189–92.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mehta R, Steinkraus KA, Sutphin GL, Ramos FJ, Shamieh LS, Huh A, et al. Proteasomal regulation of the hypoxic response modulates aging in C. elegans. Science 2009;324:1196–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hochberg Z. Evo-Devo of Child Growth. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Luginaah IN, Yanful EK, editors. Environment and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Managing an Emerging Crisis: Selected Papers from ERTEP 2007, July 17-19 2007, Ghana, Africa. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jijun R. Evolving Media Interactions between China and Africa. In: Zhang X, Wasserman H, Mano W, editors. China’s Media and Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016, p. 47–61.

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]

O`Callaghan J. Curiosity Rover Back On Track After Safety Mode Glitch. 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. Aviation Finance: Observations on Potential FAA Funding Options. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wallace DR. A Comparative Analysis of a Conventional Versus a Computer-assisted Technique for Identification of Mechanical Power Press Hazards. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2006.

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]

Ratliff B. Take the Familiar and Try to Add Adventure. New York Times 2017:C5.

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