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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Hydrogen 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

[1]

Mervis J. Environmental science. Climate sensors dropped from U.S. weather satellite package. Science 2006;312:1580.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ponce de León MS, Zollikofer CP. Neanderthal cranial ontogeny and its implications for late hominid diversity. Nature 2001;412:534–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Soroceanu L, Akhavan A, Cobbs CS. Platelet-derived growth factor-alpha receptor activation is required for human cytomegalovirus infection. Nature 2008;455:391–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Henry MR, Cho MK, Weaver MA, Merz JF. Genetics. DNA patenting and licensing. Science 2002;297:1279.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nemethy L. Business Exit Planning. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Raffa RB, Tallarida RJ, editors. Chemo Fog: Cancer Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Impairment. vol. 678. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bouzon M, Govindan K. Reverse Logistics as a Sustainable Supply Chain Practice for the Fashion Industry: An Analysis of Drivers and the Brazilian Case. In: Choi T-M, Cheng TCE, editors. Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management: From Sourcing to Retailing, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 85–104.

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 Hydrogen Energy.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Life Might Jump Between Planets In The TRAPPIST-1 System. IFLScience 2017.

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. Information Technology: FDA Needs to Fully Implement Key Management Practices to Lessen Modernization Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Farooq AS. Singing the blues: Indicators of mental illness among nursing home elderly. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Brantley B. Seizing the Day, Hankie in Hand. New York Times 2016: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	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Abbreviation	Int. J. Hydrogen Energy
ISSN (print)	0360-3199
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Fuel Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Condensed Matter Physics