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

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

Bobrow, M., 2013, “Balancing Privacy with Public Benefit,” Nature, 500(7461), p. 123.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Yin, J., and Boyce, M. C., 2015, “Materials Science: Unique Wrinkles as Identity Tags,” Nature, 520(7546), pp. 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dietz, H., Douglas, S. M., and Shih, W. M., 2009, “Folding DNA into Twisted and Curved Nanoscale Shapes,” Science, 325(5941), pp. 725–730.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kumazaki, K., Kishimoto, T., Furukawa, A., Mori, H., Tanaka, Y., Dohmae, N., Ishitani, R., Tsukazaki, T., and Nureki, O., 2014, “Crystal Structure of Escherichia Coli YidC, a Membrane Protein Chaperone and Insertase,” Sci. Rep., 4, p. 7299.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Zhu, F. X. X., Hoehn, R., Thakkar, V., and Yuh, E., 2017, Hydroprocessing for Clean Energy, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

[1]

Berg, B., 2014, Plant Litter: Decomposition, Humus Formation, Carbon Sequestration, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Erseghe, T., Laurenti, N., Rizzi, V., and Corvaja, R., 2007, “A Packet Detection Algorithm for the UWB Standard ECMA 368,” Wireless Communications 2007 CNIT Thyrrenian Symposium, S. Pupolin, ed., Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 51–64.

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 Resources Technology.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan, J., 2017, “Weird Meteor Noises Might Be Caused By Light Heating Your Hair,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/weird-meteor-noises-might-be-caused-by-light-heating-your-hair/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-2018].

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, 2015, Public Transit: Updated Guidance and Expanded Federal Authority Could Facilitate Bus Procurement, GAO-15-676, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Santoso, E., 2012, “Intellectual Capital in Indonesia: The Influence on Financial Performance of Banking Industry,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix.

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]

Koblin, J., 2017, “Season Of Change For Emmys,” New York Times, p. 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	Journal of Energy Resources Technology
Abbreviation	J. Energy Resour. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0195-0738
ISSN (online)	1528-8994
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Energy Engineering and Power Technology Fuel Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Mechanical Engineering