How to format your references using the Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. 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]

Bignami GF. Astronomy. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of telescope astronomy. Science 2009;324:1149–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Maniatis T, Reed R. An extensive network of coupling among gene expression machines. Nature 2002;416:499–506.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Neumann G, Noda T, Kawaoka Y. Emergence and pandemic potential of swine-origin H1N1 influenza virus. Nature 2009;459:931–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bao H, Fairchild IJ, Wynn PM, Spötl C. Stretching the envelope of past surface environments: Neoproterozoic glacial lakes from Svalbard. Science 2009;323:119–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Holzer SM. Statische Beurteilung Historischer Tragwerke. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Greiner W, editor. Exciting Interdisciplinary Physics: Quarks and Gluons / Atomic Nuclei / Relativity and Cosmology / Biological Systems. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Genovese A, Piuri V, Scotti F. Innovative Methods for Touchless and Less-Constrained Palmprint Recognition. In: Piuri V, Scotti F, editors. Touchless Palmprint Recognition Systems, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 111–55.

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 Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. Watch A Supernova Remnant Expand Before Your Eyes. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-supernova-remnant-expand-your-eyes/ (accessed October 30, 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. Telecommunications: Process by Which Mergers of Local Telephone Companies Are Reviewed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Smith JA. Functional analysis of ESAT-6 and EspB, two virulence proteins secreted by the ESX-1 system in Mycobacterium marinum. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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]

Vecsey G. A Coach’s Mistake, a Teaching Moment. New York Times 2010:B11.

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	Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments
Abbreviation	Sustain. Energy Technol. Assessments
ISSN (print)	2213-1388
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment