Citation Format

Articles published in JRSE use a citation format based on a six-digit citation identifier (CID).  The CID chosen for JRSE is similar to that used by Physical Review. Use of CIDs in place of traditional page numbers allows an issue to build online one article at a time while retaining the ability to segment tables of contents by article type or subject area; this accelerates online publication of articles, which are published online individually as soon as author proof corrections are incorporated.

The structure of the six-digit citation identifier is defined as follows:

Example:

An example of the correct citation format for an article in Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy is:

A. Smith and B. Jones, J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 1, 013108 (2009).

In this fictitious example, the article by Smith and Jones was published in JRSE in Issue 1 of Volume 1, as the eighth article published in section 31, which, for Vol. 1, is "Regular Articles."

In the full-text PDF file available online, the CID appears on each page. Appended at the end of the CID is a hyphen followed by a consecutive page number. For the sample article above, the full-text PDF pages would carry this page numbering: 013108-1, 013108-2, 013108-3, etc. The hyphen and additional digits should not be used when citing or searching for an article.

Definitions of this journal's current article type and subject area code numbers (the middle two digits of the CID) can be accessed through the links below.