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

Ahnert, S.E., 2014. Generalised power graph compression reveals dominant relationship patterns in complex networks. Sci. Rep. 4, 4385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bintanja, R., van der Linden, E.C., 2013. The changing seasonal climate in the Arctic. Sci. Rep. 3, 1556.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tang, C., Iwahara, J., Clore, G.M., 2006. Visualization of transient encounter complexes in protein-protein association. Nature 444, 383–386.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kenett, D.Y., Ben-Jacob, E., Stanley, H.E., Gur-Gershgoren, G., 2013. How high frequency trading affects a market index. Sci. Rep. 3, 2110.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chadha, R., Kant, L., 2007. Policy-Driven Mobile Ad hoc Network Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (Eds.), 2011. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011: International Conference, Santander, Spain, June 20-23, 2011. Proceedings, Part IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Trotter, G., 2012. Why the West Spurns Medical Rituals, in: Solomon, D., Fan, R., Lo, P.-C. (Eds.), Ritual and the Moral Life: Reclaiming the Tradition, Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 75–86.

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., 2014. Scientists Reveal How Our Circadian Clocks Are Reset [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. Commercial Aviation: Costs and Major Factors Influencing Infrastructure Changes at U.S. Airports to Accomodate the New A380 Aircraft (No. GAO-06-571). 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

Angell, B.D., 2017. Transformational Innovation and Transformational Leadership in the U.S. Government Department of Defense Acquisitions Workforce (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. Sprint Throws a Cash Lifeline to Struggling Tidal. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ahnert, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ahnert, 2014; Bintanja and van der Linden, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bintanja and van der Linden, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kenett et al., 2013)

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