How to format your references using the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems. 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]

Couzin-Frankel J. The elusive heart fix. Science 2014;345:252–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mbadugha CA, Onakoya AO. The awareness, perceptions and experiences of primary open angle glaucoma patients in Lagos Nigeria. Sci Rep 2014;4:7585.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bajcsy M, Zibrov AS, Lukin MD. Stationary pulses of light in an atomic medium. Nature 2003;426:638–41.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Tamura A, Ikeda G, Seo J-H, Tsuchiya K, Yajima H, Sasaki Y, et al. Molecular logistics using cytocleavable polyrotaxanes for the reactivation of enzymes delivered in living cells. Sci Rep 2013;3:2252.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Goldberger AL, Goldberger ZD. Becoming a Consummate Clinician. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Ford JB, Honeycutt ED Jr, editors. Proceedings of the 1998 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Coppo M, Dezani-Ciancaglini M, Padovani L, Yoshida N. A Gentle Introduction to Multiparty Asynchronous Session Types. In: Bernardo M, Johnsen EB, editors. Formal Methods for Multicore Programming: 15th International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication, and Software Systems, SFM 2015, Bertinoro, Italy, June 15-19, 2015, Advanced Lectures, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 146–78.

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 International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Women In Beijing Delivered Larger Babies When Air Was Cleaner. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cleaner-air-beijing-olympic-babies-weighed-more-birth/ (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. Information on EEO Discrimination Complaints. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Munn JE. Information Technology Certification Training Implementation: Exploratory Case Study of Air Force and Civilian Leaders Experiences. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2017.

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]

Steven Lee Myers; Erin, Sophia Kishkovsky contributed reporting for this article. Suicide Bomber Kills 9 at Moscow Subway Station. New York Times 2004:A3.

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	International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems
ISSN (print)	0142-0615
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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