How to format your references using the Energy Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Energy 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 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

Palme, H., 2004. Planetary science. The giant impact formation of the Moon. Science 304, 977–979.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marraffini, L.A., Sontheimer, E.J., 2010. Self versus non-self discrimination during CRISPR RNA-directed immunity. Nature 463, 568–571.

A journal article with 3 authors

Okita, K., Ichisaka, T., Yamanaka, S., 2007. Generation of germline-competent induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature 448, 313–317.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ivanova, N., Dobrin, R., Lu, R., Kotenko, I., Levorse, J., DeCoste, C., Schafer, X., Lun, Y., Lemischka, I.R., 2006. Dissecting self-renewal in stem cells with RNA interference. Nature 442, 533–538.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarker, S.D., Nahar, L., 2007. Chemistry for Pharmacy Students. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, England.

An edited book

Matsagar, V. (Ed.), 2015. Advances in Structural Engineering: Materials, Volume Three. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Shih, C.-Y., Capitán, J., Marrón, P.J., Viguria, A., Alarcón, F., Schwarzbach, M., Laiacker, M., Kondak, K., Martínez-de Dios, J.R., Ollero, A., 2014. On the Cooperation between Mobile Robots and Wireless Sensor Networks, in: Koubaa, A., Khelil, A. (Eds.), Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks 2014, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 67–86.

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 Energy Policy.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. The Speed Of Light Can Vary In A Vacuum [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, 1977. The Lummi Indian School of Aquaculture (No. HRD-77-108). 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

Kranz, T.E., 2017. Body, Land, and Memory: Counter-Narratives in the Poetry of Minnie Bruce Pratt, Brenda Marie Osbey, and Natasha Trethewey (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Protess, B., Silver-Greenberg, J., LaFRANIERE, S., 2017. Kushner’s Legal Team In Election Investigation May Be Reconfigured. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Palme, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Marraffini and Sontheimer, 2010; Palme, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Marraffini and Sontheimer, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ivanova et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Energy Policy
Abbreviation	Energy Policy
ISSN (print)	0301-4215
Scope	General Energy Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law