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:

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

Lučić, V., 2014. Neuroscience: towards unified vesicle endocytosis. Nature 515, 207–208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hardie, R.C., Franze, K., 2012. Photomechanical responses in Drosophila photoreceptors. Science 338, 260–263.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cai, Y., Zhang, G., Zhang, Y.-W., 2014. Layer-dependent band alignment and work function of few-layer phosphorene. Sci. Rep. 4, 6677.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chao, C.-T., Lee, S.-Y., Yang, W.-S., Yen, C.-J., Chiang, C.-K., Huang, J.-W., Hung, K.-Y., 2014. Serum vitamin D levels are positively associated with varicella zoster immunity in chronic dialysis patients. Sci. Rep. 4, 7371.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight, J.G., 2013. Coal-Fired Power Generation Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Issariyakul, T., 2012. Introduction to Network Simulator NS2, Second Edition. ed. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaganti, L.K., Singh, N., Bose, K., 2015. Cathepsins and HtrAs – Multitasking Proteases in Programmed Cell Death, in: Bose, K. (Ed.), Proteases in Apoptosis: Pathways, Protocols and Translational Advances. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 95–141.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Legal Highs – A Look At The Growing Use Of Synthetic Drugs [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, 1984. U.S. Objectives Generally Achieved at Broadcasting Satellite International Conference--Improvements Can Help in Future Conferences (No. RCED-84-157). 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

Umstead, H.G., 2017. Determining the Value of Outdoor Adventure Education for Educational Leaders (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Cowen, T., 2014. The Technological Fix to Inequality. New York Times BU7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lučić, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hardie and Franze, 2012; Lučić, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hardie and Franze, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Chao et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Electricity Journal
Abbreviation	Electr. J.
ISSN (print)	1040-6190
Scope	Business and International Management Management of Technology and Innovation Energy (miscellaneous) Law