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

Keller, P.J., 2013. Imaging morphogenesis: technological advances and biological insights. Science 340, 1234168.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lavallo, V., Grubbs, R.H., 2009. Carbenes as catalysts for transformations of organometallic iron complexes. Science 326, 559–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Syntichaki, P., Troulinaki, K., Tavernarakis, N., 2007. eIF4E function in somatic cells modulates ageing in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 445, 922–926.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ott, B.M., Cruciger, M., Dacks, A.M., Rio, R.V.M., 2014. Hitchhiking of host biology by beneficial symbionts enhances transmission. Sci. Rep. 4, 5825.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Masujima, M., 2005. Applied Mathematical Methods in Theoretical Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Degiorgio, V., 2012. Note di fotonica, UNITEXT — Collana di Fisica e Astronomia. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Christoph, A., 2014. Media-Related Aspects of Popularization: The Geographical Serials from the Publishing Houses of Friedrich Justin Bertuch, in: Liebenberg, E., Collier, P., Török, Z.G. (Eds.), History of Cartography: International Symposium of the ICA, 2012, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–69.

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., 2015. Lizard Diversity Stayed The Same For 20 Million Years, Amber Fossils Show [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lizard-diversity-stayed-same-20-million-years-amber-fossils-show/ (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, 1985. Educating Students at Gallaudet and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf: Who Are Served and What Are the Costs? (No. HRD-85-34). 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

Reyes, J.M., 2010. A support group for adults with rheumatoid arthritis (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

La GORCE, T., 2017. He Arrived as Reba McEntire. That Seemed to Work. New York Times ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keller, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Keller, 2013; Lavallo and Grubbs, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lavallo and Grubbs, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Ott et al., 2014)

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