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]

G.F. Ellis, Dennis Sciama (1926-99), Nature 403 (2000) 722.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Ochman, L.M. Davalos, The nature and dynamics of bacterial genomes, Science 311 (2006) 1730–1733.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Bolmatov, E.T. Musaev, K. Trachenko, Symmetry breaking gives rise to energy spectra of three states of matter, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2794.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Wang, D.C. Higgins, M.A. Hoque, D. Lee, F. Hassan, Z. Chen, Controlled growth of platinum nanowire arrays on sulfur doped graphene as high performance electrocatalyst, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2431.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.R. Conklin Jr., Introduction to Soil Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

B. Casu, Building Societies in the Financial Services Industry, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Bourgain, D.-V. Voiculescu, The Essential Centre of the mod a Diagonalization Ideal Commutant of an n-tuple of Commuting Hermitian Operators, in: D. Alpay, F. Cipriani, F. Colombo, D. Guido, I. Sabadini, J.-L. Sauvageot (Eds.), Noncommutative Analysis, Operator Theory and Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 77–80.

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]

J. Davis, Ravens Know When They’ve Been Cheated, And Remember Who Did It For At Least A Month, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ravens-know-when-theyve-been-cheated-and-remember-who-did-it-for-at-least-a-month/ (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, Medical ADP Systems: Composite Health Care System Acquisition--Fair, Reasonable, Supported, 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]

M.M. Jenkins, Clinical decision-making and pediatric bipolar disorder, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2009.

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]

J. Eligon, Protests Start a Dialogue, But About What, Exactly?, New York Times (2017) A14.

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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