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

Sur M (2005) Breathing life into biology. Nature 436:487

A journal article with 2 authors

Pulk A, Cate JHD (2013) Control of ribosomal subunit rotation by elongation factor G. Science 340:1235970

A journal article with 3 authors

Girvetz EH, Jaeger JAG, Thorne JH (2007) Comment on “Roadless space of the conterminous United States.” Science 318:1240; author reply 1240

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ashikari M, Sakakibara H, Lin S, et al (2005) Cytokinin oxidase regulates rice grain production. Science 309:741–745

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grist F (2010) Basic Guide to Orthodontic Dental Nursing. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Halgamuge SK, Wang L (eds) (2005) Classification and Clustering for Knowledge Discovery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lin S, Huang Z (2016) Comparative Design and Analyses of High-Rise Buildings. In: Huang Z (ed) Comparative Design of Structures: Concepts and Methodologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 201–252

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 D (2015) Will Samsung Reveal The First Foldable Smartphone In 2016? In: IFLScience. 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 (2003) Business Modernization: NASA’s Challenges in Managing Its Integrated Financial Management Program. 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

Tovar L (2009) Perceived life satisfaction of previously undocumented Latino immigrants. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Brantley B (2017) Don’t Cry, Baby Monkeys. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sur 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Sur 2005; Pulk and Cate 2013).

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

Two authors: (Pulk and Cate 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ashikari et al. 2005)

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