How to format your references using the Wind Energy Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Wind Energy Science. 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

Li, W.: Small but effective moves towards a greener China, Nature, 460, 683–684, 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dibner, C. and Schibler, U.: METABOLISM. A pancreatic clock times insulin release, Science, 350, 628–629, 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, S. W., Shimoyama, T., and Hosono, H.: Solvated electrons in high-temperature melts and glasses of the room-temperature stable electride [Ca₂₄Al₂₈O₆₄]⁴⁺·4e⁻, Science, 333, 71–74, 2011.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Malausa, T., Bethenod, M.-T., Bontemps, A., Bourguet, D., Cornuet, J.-M., and Ponsard, S.: Assortative mating in sympatric host races of the European corn borer, Science, 308, 258–260, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bush, J., Harris, D. M., and Parker, R. J.: Cognitive Self Change, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

Pierce, G. N., Mizin, V. I., and Omelchenko, A. (Eds.): Advanced Bioactive Compounds Countering the Effects of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Agents: Strategies to Counter Biological Damage, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XVIII, 287 p. 67 illus pp., 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Montijano, E. and Sagüés, C.: Fast Consensus with Chebyshev Polynomials, in: Distributed Consensus with Visual Perception in Multi-Robot Systems, edited by: Sagüés, C., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 89–126, 2015.

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 Wind Energy Science.

Blog post

What Can Beagles Teach Us About Alzheimer’s Disease? https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-can-beagles-teach-us-about-alzheimer-s-disease/, last access: 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office: Assessment of the Impact of the Teacher Corps Program at the University of Miami and Participating Schools in South Florida, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bremond, D. S.: When women win: Prominent leadership traits that contributed to the successful election of women in California, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 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

Green, L. V.: Beds of State, New York Times, 10th December, LI15, 2006.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Li, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Dibner and Schibler, 2015; Li, 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Dibner and Schibler, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Malausa et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Wind Energy Science
ISSN (print)	2366-7443
ISSN (online)	2366-7451
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