How to format your references using the Batteries citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Batteries. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kauranen, M. Physics. Freeing Nonlinear Optics from Phase Matching. Science 2013, 342, 1182–1183.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boehning, D.; Snyder, S.H. Circadian Rhythms. Carbon Monoxide and Clocks. Science 2002, 298, 2339–2340.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cai, L.; Dalal, C.K.; Elowitz, M.B. Frequency-Modulated Nuclear Localization Bursts Coordinate Gene Regulation. Nature 2008, 455, 485–490.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bernard, P.; Maure, J.F.; Partridge, J.F.; Genier, S.; Javerzat, J.P.; Allshire, R.C. Requirement of Heterochromatin for Cohesion at Centromeres. Science 2001, 294, 2539–2542.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kar, P. Doping in Conjugated Polymers; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118816639.

An edited book

Brooke, P.J. Practical Distributed Processing; Paige, R.F., Ed.; Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science; Springer: London, 2008; ISBN 9781846288401.

A chapter in an edited book

Canetti, R.; Fuller, B.; Paneth, O.; Reyzin, L.; Smith, A. Reusable Fuzzy Extractors for Low-Entropy Distributions. In Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2016: 35th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Vienna, Austria, May 8-12, 2016, Proceedings, Part I; Fischlin, M., Coron, J.-S., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016; pp. 117–146 ISBN 9783662498897.

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 Batteries.

Blog post

Fang, J. Your Baby and Your Dog Light Up Similar Parts of the Brain Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/your-baby-and-your-dog-light-similar-parts-brain/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 GAO Role in the Evaluation of Federally Funded Education Programs; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1972;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

French, D.C. A Case against E-Waste: Where One Country’s Trash Is (Not) Another Country’s Treasure: Developing National E-Waste Legislation to Regulate E-Waste Exportation. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2012.

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

Kelly, K. Marlo Thomas: “My Whole Life I’ve Had My Dukes Up.” New York Times 1973, AL135.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Batteries
ISSN (online)	2313-0105
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