How to format your references using the Journal of Power Sources citation style

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

J. Heritage, Plant sciences. Will GM rapeseed cut the mustard?, Science 302 (2003) 401–403.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.V. Lopatin, A.O. Averianov, An aegialodontid upper molar and the evolution of mammal dentition, Science 313 (2006) 1092.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.A. Tarduno, R.D. Cottrell, A.V. Smirnov, High geomagnetic intensity during the mid-Cretaceous from Thellier analyses of single plagioclase crystals, Science 291 (2001) 1779–1783.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P.G. Foulds, P. Diggle, J.D. Mitchell, A. Parker, M. Hasegawa, M. Masuda-Suzukake, D.M.A. Mann, D. Allsop, A longitudinal study on α-synuclein in blood plasma as a biomarker for Parkinson’s disease, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2540.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Eligehausen, R. Mallée, J.F. Silva, Anchorage in Concrete Construction, Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

K. Kamae, ed., Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident, 1st ed. 2016, Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Sousa, D. Mendes, D. Medeiros, A. Ferreira, J.M. Pereira, J. Jorge, Remote Proxemics, in: C. Anslow, P. Campos, J. Jorge (Eds.), Collaboration Meets Interactive Spaces, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 47–73.

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 Power Sources.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Researchers Create Thousand Strong Swarm Of Bots That Can Assemble Into Complex Shapes, IFLScience (2014).

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, Chemical Assessments: An Agencywide Strategy May Help EPA Address Unmet Needs for Integrated Risk Information System Assessments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.J. O’Leary, Telling the story: Teaching leaders the art of storytelling and its impact on individuals and the organization, 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]

B. Shpigel, Rangers Regain Their Footing at the Garden and March Back Into the Series, New York Times (2017) 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 Power Sources
Abbreviation	J. Power Sources
ISSN (print)	0378-7753
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Energy Engineering and Power Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Electrical and Electronic Engineering