How to format your references using the International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment (IJECE). 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

Gillett, N. P., Climate Modelling: Northern Hemisphere Circulation, Nature, vol. 437, no. 7058, p. 496, September 22, 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zubkov, M. V. and Tarran, G. A., High Bacterivory by the Smallest Phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean, Nature, vol. 455, no. 7210, pp. 224–26, September 11, 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gertz, J., Siggia, E. D. and Cohen, B. A., Analysis of Combinatorial Cis-Regulation in Synthetic and Genomic Promoters, Nature, vol. 457, no. 7226, pp. 215–18, January 8, 2009.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bates, A. E., Helmuth, B., Burrows, M. T., Duncan, M. I., Garrabou, J., Guy-Haim, T., Lima, F., et al., Biologists Ignore Ocean Weather at Their Peril, Nature, vol. 560, no. 7718, pp. 299–301, August 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ziegler, M., Geotechnische Nachweise Nach EC 7 Und DIN 1054, Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2012.

An edited book

Lollino, G., Arattano, M., Rinaldi, M., Giustolisi, O., Marechal, J.-C., and Grant, G. E. Eds., Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 3: River Basins, Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources, Cham: Springer International Publishing, XXV, 657 p. 390 illus., 324 illus. in color, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Accattoli, B. and Kesner, D., The Permutative λ-Calculus, in Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning: 18th International Conference, LPAR-18, Mérida, Venezuela, March 11-15, 2012. Proceedings, N. Bjørner and A. Voronkov, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 23–36, 2012.

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 for a Clean Environment.

Blog post

Fang, J., Peekaboo! Dwarf Goats Have Object Permanence Too, IFLScience, May 26, 2015.

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, Airport Privatization: Issues Related to the Sale or Lease of U.S. Commercial Airports, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-97-3, Nov. 7, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Foley, J. D., Comparing Kac-Moody Groups over the Complex Numbers and Fields of Positive Characteristic via Homotopy Theory, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2012.

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., The Killers’ 5th Album Tops Billboard Chart, New York Times, October 3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gillett, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gillett, 2005; Zubkov et al., 2008).

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

Two authors: (Zubkov et al., 2008)
Three or more authors: (Bates et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment
ISSN (print)	2150-3621
ISSN (online)	2150-363X
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