How to format your references using the Energy Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Energy Policy. 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

Burnell, J.B., 2007. Astronomy. Pulsars 40 years on. Science 318, 579–581.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simmons, L.W., Roberts, B., 2005. Bacterial immunity traded for sperm viability in male crickets. Science 309, 2031.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maier, T., Jenni, S., Ban, N., 2006. Architecture of mammalian fatty acid synthase at 4.5 A resolution. Science 311, 1258–1262.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Morito, D., Nishikawa, K., Hoseki, J., Kitamura, A., Kotani, Y., Kiso, K., Kinjo, M., Fujiyoshi, Y., Nagata, K., 2014. Moyamoya disease-associated protein mysterin/RNF213 is a novel AAA+ ATPase, which dynamically changes its oligomeric state. Sci. Rep. 4, 4442.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackenzie, B., Njikizana, T., Coetsee, D., Chamboko, R., Colyvas, B., Hanekom, B., Selbst, E., 2014. 2014 Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wang, L.K., Shammas, N.K., Hung, Y.-T. (Eds.), 2007. Biosolids Treatment Processes, Handbook of Environmental Engineering. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Pattillo, J., Youssef, N., Butenko, S., 2012. Clique Relaxation Models in Social Network Analysis, in: Thai, M.T., Pardalos, P.M. (Eds.), Handbook of Optimization in Complex Networks: Communication and Social Networks, Springer Optimization and Its Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 143–162.

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 Energy Policy.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2017. There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The Visible Universe [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1996. Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments (No. AA-96-30(1)). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shina, Y.E., 2013. Youth under the care of the child welfare and juvenile justice systems: A grant proposal for crossover youth (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

Feeney, K., 2008. Grown in New Jersey (Mostly). New York Times NJ8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burnell, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Burnell, 2007; Simmons and Roberts, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Simmons and Roberts, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Morito et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Energy Policy
Abbreviation	Energy Policy
ISSN (print)	0301-4215
Scope	General Energy Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law