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

Smaglik, P., 2004. Patching a leaky pipeline. Nature 427, 657.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kishore, S., Stamm, S., 2006. The snoRNA HBII-52 regulates alternative splicing of the serotonin receptor 2C. Science 311, 230–232.

A journal article with 3 authors

Staver, A.C., Archibald, S., Levin, S.A., 2011. The global extent and determinants of savanna and forest as alternative biome states. Science 334, 230–232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Heremans, J.P., Jovovic, V., Toberer, E.S., Saramat, A., Kurosaki, K., Charoenphakdee, A., Yamanaka, S., Snyder, G.J., 2008. Enhancement of thermoelectric efficiency in PbTe by distortion of the electronic density of states. Science 321, 554–557.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Norwitz, E.R., Saade, G.R., Miller, H., Davidson, C.M., 2016. Obstetric Clinical Algorithms. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Graziani, F. (Ed.), 2008. Computational Methods in Transport: Verification and Validation, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Görbil, G., Gelenbe, E., 2010. Design of a Mobile Agent-Based Adaptive Communication Middleware for Federations of Critical Infrastructure Simulations, in: Rome, E., Bloomfield, R. (Eds.), Critical Information Infrastructures Security: 4th International Workshop, CRITIS 2009, Bonn, Germany, September 30 - October 2, 2009. Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 34–49.

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

Davis, J., 2015. Strange Red Streaks Spotted On Tethys [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/strange-red-streaks-spotted-tethys/ (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, 2000. Maintaining Effective Control Over Employee Time and Attendance Reporting (No. GAO-01-186G). 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

Tofthagen, C.S., 2008. Development and psychometric evaluation of the Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Assessment Tool (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Sturm, J., 2017. On the Move. New York Times BR22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kishore and Stamm, 2006; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kishore and Stamm, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Heremans et al., 2008)

About the journal

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