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]

C. Macilwain, Economic divide taking toll on European science, Nature. 517 (2015) 123.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Gompel, S.B. Carroll, Genetic mechanisms and constraints governing the evolution of correlated traits in drosophilid flies, Nature. 424 (2003) 931–935.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Myrskylä, H.-P. Kohler, F.C. Billari, Advances in development reverse fertility declines, Nature. 460 (2009) 741–743.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Ben-Zvi, B.-Z. Shilo, A. Fainsod, N. Barkai, Scaling of the BMP activation gradient in Xenopus embryos, Nature. 453 (2008) 1205–1211.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Anisman, Stress and Your Health, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

S.M. Sheridan, Conjoint Behavioral Consultation: Promoting Family–School Connections and Interventions, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Seredynski, T. Ignac, P. Bouvry, Probabilistic Packet Relaying in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, in: R. Wyrzykowski, J. Dongarra, K. Karczewski, J. Wasniewski (Eds.), Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 8th International Conference, PPAM 2009, Wroclaw, Poland, September 13-16, 2009. Revised Selected Papers, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 31–40.

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]

S. Luntz, Icelandic Eruption Begins - Maybe, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/icelandic-eruption-begins-maybe/ (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, Educating Students at Gallaudet and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf: Who Are Served and What Are the Costs?, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.M. Roth, Depositional Environment of the Carbonate Cap Rock at the Pine Prairie Field, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana: Implications of Salt Diapirism on Cook Mountain Reservoir Genesis, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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]

J. Goldstein, Inside a Jail in Brooklyn, The Women Live in Fear, New York Times. (2017) A16.

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