How to format your references using the Applied Petrochemical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Petrochemical Research. 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 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

Bignami GF (2002) Astronomy. Gamma-ray astronomy with INTEGRAL. Science 298:1560–1561

A journal article with 2 authors

Ueba H, Wolf M (2005) Chemistry. Lateral hopping requires molecular rocking. Science 310:1774–1775

A journal article with 3 authors

Haile-Selassie Y, Suwa G, White TD (2004) Late Miocene teeth from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and early hominid dental evolution. Science 303:1503–1505

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mahata B, Mukherjee S, Mishra S, et al (2006) Functional delivery of a cytosolic tRNA into mutant mitochondria of human cells. Science 314:471–474

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Panek W, Wentworth T (2010) Mastering Microsoft® Windows® 7 Administration. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

Rutkowski L, Korytkowski M, Scherer R, et al (2012) Swarm and Evolutionary Computation: International Symposia, SIDE 2012 and EC 2012, Held in Conjunction with ICAISC 2012, Zakopane, Poland, April 29-May 3, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Brook O, Boyle P, Flowerdew R (2010) Geographic Analysis of Cultural Consumption. In: Stillwell J, Norman P, Thomas C, Surridge P (eds) Spatial and Social Disparities: Understanding Population Trends and Processes: volume 2. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 67–82

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 Applied Petrochemical Research.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes Have Arrived In The United States. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/zikacarrying-mosquitoes-have-arrived-in-the-united-states/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1984) Outlook for Expanding the Federal Research in Progress System. 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

Stone B (2017) Efficacy of Collaborative Consulting Training Module. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Hubbard B (2017) Overlooking Slights by Trump, Saudis Plan a Lavish Welcome. New York Times A1

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	Applied Petrochemical Research
Abbreviation	Appl. Petrochem. Res.
ISSN (print)	2190-5525
ISSN (online)	2190-5533
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology

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