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

Broecker, W.S., 2007. Climate change CO2 arithmetic. Science 315, 1371.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rykaczewski, R.R., Dunne, J.P., 2011. A measured look at ocean chlorophyll trends. Nature 472, E5-6; discussion E8-9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kieffer, H.H., Christensen, P.R., Titus, T.N., 2006. CO2 jets formed by sublimation beneath translucent slab ice in Mars’ seasonal south polar ice cap. Nature 442, 793–796.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Garrison, J.L., Kunkel, E.J., Hegde, R.S., Taunton, J., 2005. A substrate-specific inhibitor of protein translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum. Nature 436, 285–289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartlett, D., Moody, S., Kindersley, K., 2010. Dyslexia in the Workplace. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bikakis, A., Zheng, X. (Eds.), 2015. Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 9th International Workshop, MIWAI 2015, Fuzhou, China, November 13-15, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015. ed, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Friedman, D.D., Deutsch, S., Ertegun, L., Carlson, S., Estrada, M., Sturgeon, M., Mayers, H., Buckner, E., 2013. Becoming BabyWatchers: An Attachment-Based Video Intervention in a Community Mental Health Center, in: Bettmann, J.E., Demetri Friedman, D. (Eds.), Attachment-Based Clinical Work with Children and Adolescents. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 99–114.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Lion Learns To Open Car Doors [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lion-learns-open-car-doors/ (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, 1982. Space-Based Lasers (No. 117803). 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

Herkert, H.L., 2015. Toward an Unseen Shore: Imaginative Thinking in Childhood Grief (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Branch, J., 2016. Granular Perspective on a Suitable Shore. New York Times B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Broecker, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Broecker, 2007; Rykaczewski and Dunne, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Rykaczewski and Dunne, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Garrison et al., 2005)

About the journal

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