How to format your references using the Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar. 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

Gershon, D. (2000). Western researchers reap rich rewards in eastern institutions. Nature, 407(6804), 657–658.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nicholls, R. J., & Cazenave, A. (2010). Sea-level rise and its impact on coastal zones. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5985), 1517–1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ye, F., Burns, M. J., & Naughton, M. J. (2014). Structured metal thin film as an asymmetric color filter: the forward and reverse plasmonic halos. Scientific reports, 4, 7267.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Block, B. A., Teo, S. L. H., Walli, A., Boustany, A., Stokesbury, M. J. W., Farwell, C. J., et al. (2005). Electronic tagging and population structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna. Nature, 434(7037), 1121–1127.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fogel, D. B., Liu, D., & Keller, J. M. (2016). Fundamentals of Computational Intelligence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bundi, U. (Ed.). (2010). Alpine Waters (Vol. 6). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Poth, S. (2014). Changing Strategies and Control Systems at a German Insurance Company. In E. Jannesson, F. Nilsson, & B. Rapp (Eds.), Strategy, Control and Competitive Advantage: Case Study Evidence (pp. 107–137). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, December 16). Rats Smile With Their Ears. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (1994). Health Care: Benefits and Barriers to Automated Medical Records (No. T-AIMD-94-117). 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

Alonzo, C. E. (2010). Operation Uniting Families: Family treatment program a grant (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2016, April 14). Treasury Official Urges Congress to Act Quickly on Puerto Rico. New York Times, p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2000; Nicholls and Cazenave 2010).

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

Two authors: (Nicholls and Cazenave 2010)
Three or more authors: (Block et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar
Abbreviation	Renewables
ISSN (online)	2198-994X
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