How to format your references using the Journal of Power Sources citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Power Sources. 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

[1]

D.M. Engelman, Membranes are more mosaic than fluid, Nature 438 (2005) 578–580.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I. Baxter, B.P. Dilkes, Elemental profiles reflect plant adaptations to the environment, Science 336 (2012) 1661–1663.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.E. Barnes, J. Ieda, S. Maekawa, Rashba spin-orbit anisotropy and the electric field control of magnetism, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4105.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.C.N. Garabato, K.L. Polzin, B.A. King, K.J. Heywood, M. Visbeck, Widespread intense turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean, Science 303 (2004) 210–213.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Ohshima, Biophysical Chemistry of Biointerfaces, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

K. Schwerdtner Máñez, B. Poulsen, eds., Perspectives on Oceans Past, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H.R. Ashbee, R. Bond, Malassezia Species and Immunity: Host–Pathogen Interactions, in: T. Boekhout, P. Mayser, E. Guého-Kellermann, A. Velegraki (Eds.), Malassezia and the Skin: Science and Clinical Practice, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 139–173.

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 Journal of Power Sources.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, The World’s First Solar-Powered Sports Car Could Drive Forever, IFLScience (2015).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, District of Columbia: Performance Report Shows Continued Progress, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.J. Ladd, A Study of Alternative Education Programs in the State of Missouri, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2014.

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

[1]

H. Fountain, J. Schwartz, Science and Medicine; Researchers Bristle at Extent of Cuts, New York Times (2017) A18.

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	Journal of Power Sources
Abbreviation	J. Power Sources
ISSN (print)	0378-7753
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Energy Engineering and Power Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Electrical and Electronic Engineering