How to format your references using the Journal of Natural Gas Geoscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Natural Gas Geoscience. 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

[1]

R. Werner, The focus on bibliometrics makes papers less useful, Nature 517 (2015) 245.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.M. Belcher, J.C. McElwain, Limits for combustion in low O2 redefine paleoatmospheric predictions for the Mesozoic, Science 321 (2008) 1197–1200.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B.A. Steinman, M.E. Mann, S.K. Miller, Climate change. Atlantic and Pacific multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere temperatures, Science 347 (2015) 988–991.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Kaláb, A. Pralle, E.Y. Isacoff, R. Heald, K. Weis, Analysis of a RanGTP-regulated gradient in mitotic somatic cells, Nature 440 (2006) 697–701.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Breitmaier, Vom NMR-Spektrum zur Strukturformel organischer Verbindungen, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

G.N. Pierce, V.I. Mizin, A. Omelchenko, eds., Advanced Bioactive Compounds Countering the Effects of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Agents: Strategies to Counter Biological Damage, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Väätäjä, E. Sirkkunen, M. Ahvenainen, A Field Trial on Mobile Crowdsourcing of News Content Factors Influencing Participation, in: P. Kotzé, G. Marsden, G. Lindgaard, J. Wesson, M. Winckler (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013: 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2-6, 2013, Proceedings, Part III, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 54–73.

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 Natural Gas Geoscience.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Scientists Vote We Have Entered The Anthropocene Epoch, Earth’s Newest Geological Chapter, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-vote-we-have-entered-the-anthropocene-epoch-earths-newest-geological-chapter/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, [Comments on FAA Employee’s Claim for Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.Y. Marjanovic, The Role of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein in Regulating T Cell Programmed Cell Death Mechanisms and Implications for Autoimmunity in the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2016.

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]

J. Williams, Where Everybody Knows Your Name (and Dad’s), New York Times (2017) C5.

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 Natural Gas Geoscience
ISSN (print)	2468-256X
Scope