How to format your references using the Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering citation style

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

Hill, W.G., 2005. Genetics. A century of corn selection. Science 307, 683–684.

A journal article with 2 authors

Larrick, R.P., Soll, J.B., 2008. Economics. The MPG illusion. Science 320, 1593–1594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kohli, R.M., Walsh, C.T., Burkart, M.D., 2002. Biomimetic synthesis and optimization of cyclic peptide antibiotics. Nature 418, 658–661.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Marshall, J.C., Acuña, V., Allen, D.C., Bonada, N., Boulton, A.J., Carlson, S.M., Dahm, C.N., Datry, T., Leigh, C., Negus, P., Richardson, J.S., Sabater, S., Stevenson, R.J., Steward, A.L., Stubbington, R., Tockner, K., Vander Vorste, R., 2018. Protecting U.S. temporary waterways. Science 361, 856–857.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sox, H.C., Higgins, M.C., Owens, D.K., 2013. Medical Decision Making. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Mahmood, Z. (Ed.), 2014. Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations and R&D Solutions, Computer Communications and Networks. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Tam, E., Sweeney, T.-A., 2016. Learning with iPads in Early Childhood Education, in: Orrell, J., Curtis, D.D. (Eds.), Publishing Higher Degree Research: Making the Transition from Student to Researcher. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 43–52.

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 Science and Engineering.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Charge Gadgets Just By Walking [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, 1998. Telecommunications and Information Technology: Federal Programs That Can Be Used to Fund Technology for Schools and Libraries (No. T-HEHS-98-246). 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

Thompson, P., 2012. An exploratory study of work-related imagined interactions with real-life coworkers (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2003. World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Russian Tycoon Receives Asylum. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hill, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Hill, 2005; Larrick and Soll, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Larrick and Soll, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Marshall et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Nat. Gas Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1875-5100
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology