Articles and Beyond
Helpful writing comes in many forms.
Academic Journal Article
The academic journal article is the key academic publication. The citation typically comes in a format that includes author, date, article title, journal title, volume indicator (here the Roman numeral for ten), issue number (here 16), and page numbers. Sometimes when an article is online-only, an article number may be used instead (here, 1002710). Example articles:
- Cole C, Droste M, Knittel C, Li S, Stock JH. Policies for Electrifying the Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet in the United States. American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 113, May 2023, pp. 316-22.
- Dall-Orsoletta, A., Ferreira, P., & Dranka, G. G. (2022). Low-carbon technologies and just energy transition: Prospects for electric vehicles. Energy Conversion and Management: X, 16, 100271.
- Rempel, David, Carleen Cullen, Mary Matteson Bryan, and Gustavo Vianna Cezar. 2022. “Reliability of open public electric vehicle direct current fast chargers.” Human Factors 66, no.11 (2022).
To search for journal articles, use HOLLIS or Google Scholar.
Some other examples besides journals
CQ Researcher:
CQ (Congressional Quarterly) researcher is a collection of background pieces on all issue of interest to the U.S. Congress and others. For example:
- Vock, D. (2024). Electric vehicles. In CQ Researcher. CQ Press . See especially “Chronology” tab.
Doctoral Dissertation:
Example:
- Kirsch, D. A. (1997). The electric car and the burden of history: Studies in automotive systems rivalry in america, 1890--1996 (Order No. 9714137). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (304372906). Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/dissertations-theses/electric-car-burden-history-studies-automotive/docview/304372906/se-2 Ch.6. “The Second Battle of the Automobile Engine: Electric Vehicles in the Age of Internal Combusion, 1967-1996” pp. 253-280. Also see its tremendous bibliography on the long history of the electric car.
To search doctoral dissertations, use ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
Government Reports:
Examples:
- Ge, Y., National Renewable Energy Laboratory. (2021). There’s no place like home: residential parking, electrical access, and implications for the future of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
- Nelson, M. A., Nelson, M. A., & Butcher, T. G. (2023). An Evolving Regulatory Landscape for Commercial Electric Vehicle Fueling. US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
One way to search government reports at various scales in the US is to do a search in regular google but include the command < site:.gov > in the search bar. For example, electric vehicles site:.gov .
Working Papers
Working papers and are a format for the newest scholarly work in progress, before it has undergone peer review. This is a way to share fresh work as it is in progress, and it often is the best source of new ideas and approaches. Here are two working paper series:
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers.
Example paper:
- Alcott, Hunt, Reigner Kane, Maximilian Maydanchik, Joseph Shapiro, and Felix Tintelnot, “The Effects of “Buy American”: Electric Vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act,” NBER Working Paper 33032, October 2024.
SSRN Research papers and preprints.
Formerly Social Science Research Network but includes work from all disciplines. Example paper:
- Cotterman, Turner, Erica Fuchs, Kate Whitefoot, Christophe Combemale, "The transition to electrified vehicles: Evaluating the labor demand of manufacturing conventional versus battery electric vehicle powertrains." Energy Policy, 188, 114064. March 24, 2024.
