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

Cale, C.M., 2015. Forensic DNA evidence is not infallible. Nature 526, 611.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sharp, W.D., Clague, D.A., 2006. 50-Ma initiation of Hawaiian-Emperor bend records major change in Pacific plate motion. Science 313, 1281–1284.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reinhardt, K., Dowling, D.K., Morrow, E.H., 2013. Medicine. Mitochondrial replacement, evolution, and the clinic. Science 341, 1345–1346.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kao, S.-C., Wu, H., Xie, J., Chang, C.-P., Ranish, J.A., Graef, I.A., Crabtree, G.R., 2009. Calcineurin/NFAT signaling is required for neuregulin-regulated Schwann cell differentiation. Science 323, 651–654.

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., Foote, R., 2011. Ethics in Science and Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kox, A.J. (Ed.), 2009. The Scientific Correspondence of H. A. Lorentz: Volume I, Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Chase, J.G., Le Compte, A.J., Evans, A., Ward, L., Steel, J., Tan, C.S., Pretty, C.G., Penning, S., Desaive, T., Shaw, G.M., 2012. Tight Glycemic Control in Intensive Care: From Engineering to Clinical Practice Change, in: Jobbágy, Á. (Ed.), 5th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering: 14–18 September 2011, Budapest, Hungary, IFMBE Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 11–14.

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

Davis, J., 2017. What Is The Best Mosquito Repellent? Science Comes To The Rescue [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. Reasons for Lack of Replacement for Failed Weather Satellite (No. RCED-84-198). 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

Rensing, R.I., 2012. Developing a notebook protocol for the high school chemistry classroom (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

Pilon, M., Eder, S., Krupnick, M., 2014. In Death of L.I. High School Player, Perils of a Sport Reverberate. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cale, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cale, 2015; Sharp and Clague, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Sharp and Clague, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kao et al., 2009)

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

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