How to format your references using the Utilities Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Utilities Policy. 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

Mi, B., 2014. Materials science. Graphene oxide membranes for ionic and molecular sieving. Science 343, 740–742.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schorlemmer, D., Wiemer, S., 2005. Earth science: microseismicity data forecast rupture area. Nature 434, 1086.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nowacki, A., Wookey, J., Kendall, J.-M., 2010. Deformation of the lowermost mantle from seismic anisotropy. Nature 467, 1091–1094.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ober, E.A., Verkade, H., Field, H.A., Stainier, D.Y.R., 2006. Mesodermal Wnt2b signalling positively regulates liver specification. Nature 442, 688–691.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blackford, R., Schüklenk, U., 2013. 50 Great Myths about Atheism. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Masson, A., Shariff, M.J. (Eds.), 2009. Legal Strategies: How Corporations Use Law to Improve Performance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Giga, M.-H., Giga, Y., Saal, J., 2010. Compactness Theorems, in: Giga, Y., Saal, J. (Eds.), Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions and Self-Similar Solutions. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, pp. 181–188.

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 Utilities Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2013. The Science of the Obesity Epidemic [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, 2010. National Airspace System: Summary of Flight Delay Trends for 34 Airports in the Continental United States (GAO-10-543SP, May 26, 2010), an E-supplement to GAO-10-542 (No. GAO-10-543SP). 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

Adetunji, O.O., 2008. The Nature of Electronic States in Conducting Polymer Nano-Networks (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2017. Puerto Rico’s Troubled Finances Add to Vulnerability During Hurricane. New York Times B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mi, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Mi, 2014; Schorlemmer and Wiemer, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Schorlemmer and Wiemer, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Ober et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Utilities Policy
ISSN (print)	0957-1787
Scope	Business and International Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Development Law Sociology and Political Science