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

Fergany, N., 2006. Islam and Science: steps towards reform. Nature 444, 33–34.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tong, F., Engel, S.A., 2001. Interocular rivalry revealed in the human cortical blind-spot representation. Nature 411, 195–199.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitney, D., Westwood, D.A., Goodale, M.A., 2003. The influence of visual motion on fast reaching movements to a stationary object. Nature 423, 869–873.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dery, H., Dalal, P., Cywiński, Ł., Sham, L.J., 2007. Spin-based logic in semiconductors for reconfigurable large-scale circuits. Nature 447, 573–576.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Millon, T., Grossman, S., 2007. Moderating Severe Personality Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Richards, J.A. (Ed.), 2008. Radio Wave Propagation: An Introduction for the Non-Specialist. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Stark, F., 2011. Corporate Criminal Liability in Scotland: The Problems with a Piecemeal Approach, in: Pieth, M., Ivory, R. (Eds.), Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence, and Risk. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 113–146.

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

Taub, B., 2016. Here’s What Ötzi The Iceman Was Wearing When He Died [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/otzi-iceman-wearing-when-he-dies/ (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, 1976. Career Education: Status and Needed Improvements (No. MWD-76-81). 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

Hawkins, A.J., 2013. Measurement of the spacial distribution of heat exchange in a geothermal analog bedrock site using fiber-otic distributed temperature sensing (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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Three Derby Trainers, Each One of a Kind. New York Times B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fergany, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Fergany, 2006; Tong and Engel, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Tong and Engel, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Dery et al., 2007)

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

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