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:

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

[1]

M.E. Brashears, Humans use compression heuristics to improve the recall of social networks, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1513.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Watanabe, S. Kondo, Fish pigmentation. Comment on “Local reorganization of xanthophores fine-tunes and colors the striped pattern of zebrafish,” Science 348 (2015) 297.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Mashchenko, H.M.P. Couchman, J. Wadsley, The removal of cusps from galaxy centres by stellar feedback in the early Universe, Nature 442 (2006) 539–542.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Kamlapure, T. Das, S.C. Ganguli, J.B. Parmar, S. Bhattacharyya, P. Raychaudhuri, Emergence of nanoscale inhomogeneity in the superconducting state of a homogeneously disordered conventional superconductor, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2979.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Douglas, Achieving Business Success with GIS, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

J.J. (jong H. Park, A. Zomaya, H.-Y. Jeong, M. Obaidat, eds., Frontier and Innovation in Future Computing and Communications, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. Mubarok, K. Lee, S. Lee, H. Lee, Lightweight Resource Management for DDoS Traffic Isolation in a Cloud Environment, in: N. Cuppens-Boulahia, F. Cuppens, S. Jajodia, A. Abou El Kalam, T. Sans (Eds.), ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection: 29th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2014, Marrakech, Morocco, June 2-4, 2014. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 44–51.

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]

B. Taub, Scientists Have Discovered That Stingrays Chew Their Food, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-have-discovered-that-stingrays-chew-their-food/ (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, Medicare: Post-Hearing Questions Related to Financial and Information Technology Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N. Abuzainab, Energy and security aspects of wireless networks: Performance and tradeoffs, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2013.

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]

E. St. John Kelly, PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, New York Times (1994) 148.

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 Strategy Reviews
Abbreviation	Energy Strat. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2211-467X
Scope	Energy (miscellaneous)