How to format your references using the Electric Power Systems Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Electric Power Systems Research. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

M.-H. Julien, Physics. Magnetic fields make waves in cuprates, Science. 350 (2015) 914–915.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Z. Zhan, S.A. Barnett, An octane-fueled solid oxide fuel cell, Science. 308 (2005) 844–847.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Zimmer, Y. Nam, T.A. Rapoport, Structure of a complex of the ATPase SecA and the protein-translocation channel, Nature. 455 (2008) 936–943.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.Z. Ludwig, C. Bergman, N.H. Patel, M. Kreitman, Evidence for stabilizing selection in a eukaryotic enhancer element, Nature. 403 (2000) 564–567.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Neupert, French Animation History, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J. Hodicky, ed., Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems: Third International Workshop, MESAS 2016, Rome, Italy, June 15-16, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.E. Greene, K.-T. Kim, S.G. Krantz, Lie Groups Realized as Automorphism Groups, in: K.-T. Kim, S.G. Krantz (Eds.), The Geometry of Complex Domains, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 2011: pp. 135–159.

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 Electric Power Systems Research.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, E. coli Gets a Circadian Clock Transplant, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/e-coli-gets-circadian-clock-transplant/ (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, Federal Aviation Administration’s Advanced Automation System Investment, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

F. Zarate Ramirez, Pedagogical and performance approach to selected bel canto songs and arias of Bellini and Donizetti, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

D. Cave, Making History With Breast-Fed Meal in Parliament, New York Times. (2017) 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	Electric Power Systems Research
Abbreviation	Electric Power Syst. Res.
ISSN (print)	0378-7796
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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