How to format your references using the Progress in Energy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in 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	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

[1]

Lederman L 2004 The pleasure of learning Nature 430 617

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Senn D B and Hemond H F 2002 Nitrate controls on iron and arsenic in an urban lake Science 296 2373–6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Koga K, Tanaka H and Zeng X C 2000 First-order transition in confined water between high-density liquid and low-density amorphous phases Nature 408 564–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Greig D, Louis E J, Borts R H and Travisano M 2002 Hybrid speciation in experimental populations of yeast Science 298 1773–5

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sewell G 2005 The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Mödersheim S and Palamidessi C 2012 Theory of Security and Applications: Joint Workshop, TOSCA 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 31 - April 1, 2011, Revised Selected Papers vol 6993 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Abul-Soad A A, Mahdi S M and Markhand G S 2015 Date Palm Status and Perspective in Pakistan Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization: Volume 2: Asia and Europe ed J M Al-Khayri, S M Jain and D V Johnson (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 153–205

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 Progress in Energy.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Meet The Owl With Eyes Like The Night Sky IFLScience

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 2016 Public Transit: Observations on Recent Changes to the Capital Investment Grant Program (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

[1]

Castiglione A 2010 Counterproductive work behaviors: The role of employee support policies, envy, and narcissism Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

(nyt) S K 2003 World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Israeli Rabbi Visits New York Times A6

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	Progress in Energy
ISSN (online)	2516-1083
Scope