How to format your references using the Journal of Energy Storage citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Energy Storage. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

S. Gaines, Sex, love and science, Nature 413 (2001) 255.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Kim, M.H.W. Chan, Observation of superflow in solid helium, Science 305 (2004) 1941–1944.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.E. DeCoursey, D. Morgan, V.V. Cherny, The voltage dependence of NADPH oxidase reveals why phagocytes need proton channels, Nature 422 (2003) 531–534.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Fickler, M. Krenn, R. Lapkiewicz, S. Ramelow, A. Zeilinger, Real-time imaging of quantum entanglement, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1914.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Horrocks, Greek, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

R. Cipolla, S. Battiato, G.M. Farinella, eds., Registration and Recognition in Images and Videos, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Tirri, P. Nokelainen, Emotional Leadership Questionnaire, in: K. Tirri, P. Nokelainen (Eds.), Measuring Multiple Intelligences and Moral Sensitivities in Education, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2011: pp. 77–100.

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 Journal of Energy Storage.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Scientists Finally Explain The Link Between Stress And Heart Attacks, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-finally-explain-link-between-stress-and-heart-attacks/ (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, Educational Assistance for Institutionalized Neglected or Delinquent Children, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.L. Smith, Initial construct validation of the color figure mazes test, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2012.

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. Wagner, Bumgarner and Big Blast Leave Mets Blanked and Blue, New York Times (2016) B10.

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	Journal of Energy Storage
Abbreviation	J. Energy Storage
ISSN (print)	2352-152X
Scope