How to format your references using the Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Turnpenny L. Journal club. A stem-cell researcher considers an accusation of dullness. Nature. 2009;459:143.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lee BW, Clark NA. Alignment of liquid crystals with patterned isotropic surfaces. Science. 2001;291:2576–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Miller JR, Outlaw RA, Holloway BC. Graphene double-layer capacitor with ac line-filtering performance. Science. 2010;329:1637–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lu J, Zhong J, Tang Y, Huang T, Cao J, Kurths J. Synchronization in output-coupled temporal Boolean networks. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6292.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Binnie C. Linux Server Security. Indianapolis, IN, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Glass BP. Distal Impact Ejecta Layers: A Record of Large Impacts in Sedimentary Deposits. Simonson BM, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Eliassi B. Conceiving Citizenship and Statelessness in the Middle East and Sweden: The Experiences of Kurdish Migrants in Sweden. In: Stokes-DuPass N, Fruja R, editors. Citizenship, Belonging, and Nation-States in the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. p. 85–110.

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 Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. What Would Your Christmas Dinner Look Like Without Bees? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/no-bees-no-christmas-dinner/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Telecommunications: GSA Needs to Improve Process for Awarding Task Orders for Local Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Apr. Report No.: GAO-03-369.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bowman K. A Close Look at the 2014 Passage of the Illinois County School Facility Sales Tax in Greene County [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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

1. Brantley B. Dissecting the Pain of Fame. New York Times. 2017 Oct 6;C1.

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	Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports
ISSN (online)	2196-3010
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