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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Energy Institute. 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. Peng, Focus on quality, not just quantity, Nature 475 (2011) 267.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Hueso, A. Sánchez-Lavega, Methane storms on Saturn’s moon Titan, Nature 442 (2006) 428–431.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.-H. Kim, M. Yoneya, H. Yokoyama, Tristable nematic liquid-crystal device using micropatterned surface alignment, Nature 420 (2002) 159–162.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Ghaemmaghami, W.-K. Huh, K. Bower, R.W. Howson, A. Belle, N. Dephoure, E.K. O’Shea, J.S. Weissman, Global analysis of protein expression in yeast, Nature 425 (2003) 737–741.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.J. Filla, H.E. Brown, Prospect Research for Fundraisers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

R. Lee, ed., Software Engineering Research,Management and Applications 2011, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.M. Jamieson, M. Farlik, T. Decker, How Stats Interact with the Molecular Machinery of Transcriptional Activation, in: T. Decker, M. Müller (Eds.), Jak-Stat Signaling : From Basics to Disease, Springer, Vienna, 2012: pp. 65–89.

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 the Energy Institute.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Beautiful Bubblegum Coral On The Seabed Of The Mariana Region, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/beautiful-bubblegum-coral-on-the-seabed-of-the-mariana-region/ (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, Airport Financing: Comparing Funding Sources With Planned Development, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Bonin, Spatial and temporal characteristics of electromagnetic activity in the brain prior to reaches to visual targets, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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]

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by, Arts, Briefly; Rare Violin in the Spotlight, New York Times (2005) E2.

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 the Energy Institute
ISSN (print)	1743-9671
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