How to format your references using the Energy Storage Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Energy Storage Materials. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

F. Perez, Cell biology: Organelles under light control, Nature 518 (2015) 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.A. Raymond, J.J. Cole, Increase in the export of alkalinity from North America’s largest river, Science 301 (2003) 88–91.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.N. Grant, S. Brönnimann, L. Haimberger, Recent Arctic warming vertical structure contested, Nature 455 (2008) E2-3; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Kobayashi, R. Komori, K. Ishida, K. Kino, S.-I. Tanuma, H. Miyazawa, Tal2 expression is induced by all-trans retinoic acid in P19 cells prior to acquisition of neural fate, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4935.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

O. Ocic, Oil Refineries in the 21st Century, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

K. Marshall, Pro Active Record: Databases with Ruby and Rails, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Günay, P. Yolum, Detecting Conflicts in Commitments, in: C. Sakama, S. Sardina, W. Vasconcelos, M. Winikoff (Eds.), Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies IX: 9th International Workshop, DALT 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 3, 2011, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 51–66.

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 Storage Materials.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Scientists Have Figured Out Why Brown Dwarfs Are Such A Diverse Bunch, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-have-figured-out-why-brown-dwarfs-are-such-a-diverse-bunch/ (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, Direct Student Loans: Efforts to Resolve Lenders’ Problems With Consolidations Are Under Way, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.A. Nixon, Defining Principals: The Seen and the Unseen. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards Five and Six, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2015.

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]

G. Vecsey, When Goodell Learned That Life Is No Game, New York Times (2010) SP5.

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	Energy Storage Materials
Abbreviation	Energy Storage Mater.
ISSN (print)	2405-8297
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