How to format your references using the Energy Strategy Reviews citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
D. Dickson, Mathematicians chase the seven million-dollar proofs, Nature 405 (2000) 383.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
M. Tomasello, J. Kaminski, Behavior. Like infant, like dog, Science 325 (2009) 1213–1214.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
I.I. Smolyaninov, Y.-J. Hung, C.C. Davis, Magnifying superlens in the visible frequency range, Science 315 (2007) 1699–1701.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
L. Navarro, P. Dunoyer, F. Jay, B. Arnold, N. Dharmasiri, M. Estelle, O. Voinnet, J.D.G. Jones, A plant miRNA contributes to antibacterial resistance by repressing auxin signaling, Science 312 (2006) 436–439.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
O. Vanbésien, Artificial Materials, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.
An edited book
[1]
D. Derdikman, J.J. Knierim, eds., Space,Time and Memory in the Hippocampal Formation, Springer, Vienna, 2014.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
J.A. Lennox, G.M. Turner, Modelling Manufactured Capital Stocks and Material Flows in the Australian Stocks and Flows Framework, in: S. Suh (Ed.), Handbook of Input-Output Economics in Industrial Ecology, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009: pp. 77–97.

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 Strategy Reviews.

Blog post
[1]
E. Andrew, Astronomers Have Spotted Something Very, Very Strange Surrounding A Distant Star, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/milky-ways-most-mysterious-star/ (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, Proprietary Schools: Poorer Student Outcomes at Schools That Rely More on Federal Student Aid, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
M.C. Sitterding, Situation awareness and the selection of interruption handling strategies during the medication administration process: A qualitative study, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2014.

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. Risen, S. Fink, Trump’s Talk on Torture Adds to Global Anxiety, New York Times (2017) A13.

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 titleEnergy Strategy Reviews
AbbreviationEnergy Strat. Rev.
ISSN (print)2211-467X
ScopeEnergy (miscellaneous)

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