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

Wright, G. D.: Biochemistry. A new target for antibiotic development, Science, 315, 1373–1374, 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

Deschenes, L. A. and Vanden Bout, D. A.: Single-molecule studies of heterogeneous dynamics in polymer melts near the glass transition, Science, 292, 255–258, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ivany, L. C., Patterson, W. P., and Lohmann, K. C.: Cooler winters as a possible cause of mass extinctions at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary, Nature, 407, 887–890, 2000.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Whitlock, J. R., Heynen, A. J., Shuler, M. G., and Bear, M. F.: Learning induces long-term potentiation in the hippocampus, Science, 313, 1093–1097, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padgett, S.: Profiling the Fraudster, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

Olivi, G. and Olivi, M. (Eds.): Lasers in Restorative Dentistry: A Practical Guide, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XV, 274 p. 596 illus., 511 illus. in color pp., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Ordóñez, A.: A New Set of Questions: ICT4D Research and Policy, in: Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South, edited by: Chib, A., May, J., and Barrantes, R., Springer, Singapore, 63–82, 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

Could This New Clock Redefine The Length Of A Second? https://www.iflscience.com/physics/could-this-new-clock-redefine-the-length-of-a-second/, 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: Computer-Based Patient Records: Subcommittee Questions Concerning VA and DOD Efforts to Achieve a Two-Way Exchange of Health Data, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bonilla, E.: Parental Employment Status and Child Feeding Practices Among African American and Latina Adolescent Girls, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Sisario, B.: A New Club in Brooklyn, as Promoter Rocks On, New York Times, 5th December, C1, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wright, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Wright, 2007; Deschenes and Vanden Bout, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Deschenes and Vanden Bout, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Whitlock et al., 2006)

About the journal

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