How to format your references using the The Electricity Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Electricity Journal. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Geiger, B., 2001. Cell biology. Encounters in space. Science 294, 1661–1663.
A journal article with 2 authors
Kirchmaier, A.L., Rine, J., 2001. DNA replication-independent silencing in S. cerevisiae. Science 291, 646–650.
A journal article with 3 authors
Heywood, K.J., Naveira Garabato, A.C., Stevens, D.P., 2002. High mixing rates in the abyssal Southern Ocean. Nature 415, 1011–1014.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Trotman, L.C., Alimonti, A., Scaglioni, P.P., Koutcher, J.A., Cordon-Cardo, C., Pandolfi, P.P., 2006. Identification of a tumour suppressor network opposing nuclear Akt function. Nature 441, 523–527.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Sexton, D., 2008. Trump University Branding 101. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Yang, Z.-Z., 2012. Capture and Utilization of Carbon Dioxide with Polyethylene Glycol, SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Longo, V.D., Fabrizio, P., 2012. Chronological Aging in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, in: Breitenbach, M., Jazwinski, S.M., Laun, P. (Eds.), Aging Research in Yeast, Subcellular Biochemistry. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 101–121.

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 The Electricity Journal.

Blog post
Fang, J., 2014. Hubble Captures Dancing Auroras on Saturn [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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
Government Accountability Office, 2006. Head Start: Additional Information on Implementation of Transportation Regulations (No. GAO-07-194R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Day, C., 2012. Medication-assisted treatment: Education for those who assist in the treatment of substance use disorders curriculum development (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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
Brantley, B., 2017. Daughter, You’ve Turned Into Your Mother. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Geiger, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Geiger, 2001; Kirchmaier and Rine, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

  • Two authors: (Kirchmaier and Rine, 2001)
  • Three or more authors: (Trotman et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal titleThe Electricity Journal
AbbreviationElectr. J.
ISSN (print)1040-6190
ScopeBusiness and International Management
Management of Technology and Innovation
Energy (miscellaneous)
Law

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