How to format your references using the International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering. 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

Eisenstein, M.: Drug development: Holding out for reinforcements. Nature. 484, S16-8 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown, J.K.M., Hovmøller, M.S.: Aerial dispersal of pathogens on the global and continental scales and its impact on plant disease. Science. 297, 537–541 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, M., Yu, X., Ahlberg, P.E.: A primitive sarcopterygian fish with an eyestalk. Nature. 410, 81–84 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kleiven, H.K.F., Kissel, C., Laj, C., Ninnemann, U.S., Richter, T.O., Cortijo, E.: Reduced North Atlantic deep water coeval with the glacial Lake Agassiz freshwater outburst. Science. 319, 60–64 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartmann, A.K., Weigt, M.: Phase Transitions in Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG (2005)

An edited book

Reif, K. ed: Automotive Mechatronics: Automotive Networking, Driving Stability Systems, Electronics. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Agoshkov, V.I., Kamenschikov, L.P., Karepova, E.D., Shaidurov, V.V.: Numerical Solution of Some Direct and Inverse Mathematical Problems for Tidal Flows. In: Krause, E., Shokin, Y.I., Resch, M., and Shokina, N. (eds.) Computational Science and High Performance Computing III: The 3rd Russian-German Advanced Research Workshop, Novosibirsk, Russia, July 23 - 27, 2007. pp. 31–43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

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 Energy and Environmental Engineering.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Sidewinder Robot Scales Sandy Slopes With Ease, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/sidewinder-robot-scales-sandy-slopes-ease/

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: School Facilities: Accessibility for the Disabled Still an Issue. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1995)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Regmi, K.: Computer Vision and Image Processing Toolbox for MATLAB, (2015)

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

Walsh, M.W.: Treasury Dept. Rejects Plan to Cut Benefits for Teamsters, (2016)

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	International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering
Abbreviation	Int. J. Energy Environ. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2008-9163
ISSN (online)	2251-6832
Scope	General Energy Environmental Engineering