How to format your references using the Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology. 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

Sherwood Lollar B (2004) Geochemistry. Life’s chemical kitchen. Science 304:972–973

A journal article with 2 authors

Engwerda CR, Good MF (2012) Immunology. Platelets kill the parasite within. Science 338:1304–1305

A journal article with 3 authors

Heuer AH, Jia CL, Lagerlöf KPD (2010) The core structure of basal dislocations in deformed sapphire (alpha-Al₂O₃). Science 330:1227–1231

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Saito F, Hirayasu K, Satoh T, et al (2018) Corrigendum: Immune evasion of Plasmodium falciparum by RIFIN via inhibitory receptors. Nature 554:554

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Attoh-Okine NO (2017) Big Data and Differential Privacy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hamelryck T, Mardia K, Ferkinghoff-Borg J (eds) (2012) Bayesian Methods in Structural Bioinformatics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Verweij A (2010) Perspective in a box. In: García-Salgado T (ed) Architecture, Mathematics and Perspective. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp 47–62

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 Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New York Medical Examiners Not Required To Return All Organs, Court Rules. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-york-medical-examiners-not-required-return-all-organs-court-rules/. 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 (1995) National Airspace System: Comprehensive FAA Plan for Global Positioning System Is Needed. 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

Marchek SP (2015) A quantitative investigation of the Technology Obsolescence Model (TOM) factors that influence the decision to replace obsolete systems. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Hodgman J (2017) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sherwood Lollar 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Sherwood Lollar 2004; Engwerda and Good 2012).

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

Two authors: (Engwerda and Good 2012)
Three or more authors: (Saito et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology
Abbreviation	J. Pet. Explor. Prod. Technol.
ISSN (print)	2190-0558
ISSN (online)	2190-0566
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology General Energy