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

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

Savage, N. 2015. “Synthetic coatings: Super surfaces.” Nature, 519 (7544): S7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kroymann, J., and T. Mitchell-Olds. 2005. “Epistasis and balanced polymorphism influencing complex trait variation.” Nature, 435 (7038): 95–98.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ni, S., H. Kanamori, and D. Helmberger. 2005. “Seismology: energy radiation from the Sumatra earthquake.” Nature, 434 (7033): 582.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lewis, R. A., A. Bruno-Alfonso, G. V. B. de Souza, R. E. M. Vickers, J. A. Colla, and E. Constable. 2013. “Spherical, cylindrical and tetrahedral symmetries; hydrogenic states at high magnetic field in Si:P.” Scientific reports, 3: 3488.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kadane, J. B., and D. A. Schum. 1997. A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence: Kadane/A Probabilistic. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tennberg, M., ed. 2012. Governing the Uncertain: Adaptation and Climate in Russia and Finland. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Hassine, J., and A. Hamou-Lhadj. 2014. “Toward a UCM-Based Approach for Recovering System Availability Requirements from Execution Traces.” System Analysis and Modeling: Models and Reusability: 8th International Conference, SAM 2014, Valencia, Spain, September 29-30, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by D. Amyot, P. Fonseca i Casas, and G. Mussbacher, 48–63. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Energy Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. “Scientists Recreate First Spark Of Life.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-form-building-blocks-life-recreating-asteroid-collision/.

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. 1999. Railroad Regulation: Current Issues Associated With the Rate Relief Process. 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

Paik, Y. 2012. “Redefining multidisciplinary teams: An institutional approach.” 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

Billard, M. 2016. “The View From the Back Row.” New York Times, February 4, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kroymann and Mitchell-Olds 2005; Savage 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kroymann and Mitchell-Olds 2005)
Three or more authors: (Lewis et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Energy Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Energy Eng.
ISSN (print)	0733-9402
ISSN (online)	1943-7897
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Nuclear Energy and Engineering Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Civil and Structural Engineering Waste Management and Disposal