How to format your references using the International Journal of Ambient Energy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Ambient Energy. 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	Download the output style file
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

Brandeker, Alexis. 2014. “Astronomy. A Different Class of Planets.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6178): 1440–1441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yamanaka, Shinya, and Helen M. Blau. 2010. “Nuclear Reprogramming to a Pluripotent State by Three Approaches.” Nature 465 (7299): 704–712.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lieberman, Debra, John Tooby, and Leda Cosmides. 2007. “The Architecture of Human Kin Detection.” Nature 445 (7129): 727–731.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rands, Sean A., Guy Cowlishaw, Richard A. Pettifor, J. Marcus Rowcliffe, and Rufus A. Johnstone. 2003. “Spontaneous Emergence of Leaders and Followers in Foraging Pairs.” Nature 423 (6938): 432–434.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang, Fay, Reinhard Klette, and Karsten Scheibe. 2008. Panoramic Imaging. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Siegesmund, Siegfried, and Rolf Snethlage, eds. 2011. Stone in Architecture: Properties, Durability. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jana, Mrinal, Pankaj Kumar, and Geetanjali Panda. 2015. “Efficient Portfolio for Interval Sharpe Ratio Model.” In Mathematics and Computing: ICMC, Haldia, India, January 2015, edited by Ram N. Mohapatra, Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury, and Debasis Giri, 59–77. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. New Delhi: Springer India.

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 International Journal of Ambient Energy.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2017. “Researchers Have Created The World’s First Genetically Modified Ants.” IFLScience, IFLScience, March 9. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-have-created-the-worlds-first-genetically-modified-ants/.

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. 2013. Federal-Aid Highways: Improved Guidance Could Enhance States’ Use of Life-Cycle Cost Analysis in Pavement Selection. GAO-13-544. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Klochko, Kateryna. 2009. “An Empirical Re-Evaluation of the Boron Isotope/pH Proxy in Marine Carbonates.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park.

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, Ben. 2016. “Bill Is Passed to Ban Bots That Ticket Scalpers Use.” New York Times, December 9, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brandeker 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Brandeker 2014; Yamanaka and Blau 2010).

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

Two authors: (Yamanaka and Blau 2010)
Three authors: (Lieberman, Tooby, and Cosmides 2007)
4 or more authors: (Rands et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Ambient Energy
Abbreviation	Int. J. Ambient Energy
ISSN (print)	0143-0750
ISSN (online)	2162-8246
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Building and Construction