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

Brookfield JF (2001) Predicting the future. Nature 411:999

A journal article with 2 authors

Wiseman BS, Werb Z (2002) Stromal effects on mammary gland development and breast cancer. Science 296:1046–1049

A journal article with 3 authors

Xing L, Li X, Snider WD (2015) Neurodevelopment. “RASopathic” astrocytes constrain neural plasticity. Science 348:636–637

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Marcheva B, Ramsey KM, Buhr ED, et al (2010) Disruption of the clock components CLOCK and BMAL1 leads to hypoinsulinaemia and diabetes. Nature 466:627–631

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Broekaert JAC (2005) Analytical Atomic Spectrometry with Flames and Plasmas. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Steele RG, Elkin TD, Roberts MC (eds) (2008) Handbook of Evidence-Based Therapies for Children and Adolescents: Bridging Science and Practice. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Mehling H, Cabeza LF (2008) Design of latent heat storages. In: Cabeza LF (ed) Heat and cold storage with PCM: An up to date introduction into basics and applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 137–179

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 (2014) Mysterious Signal Detected- Could It Be From Dark Matter? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-signal-detected-could-it-be-dark-matter/. 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 (2016) Highway Safety: More Robust DOT Oversight of Guardrails and Other Roadside Hardware Could Further Enhance Safety. 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

Cruz AA (2009) Concordance between therapists’ self -reports and observers’ ratings of adherence to marital therapy. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by (2005) Arts, Briefly; Paintings Returned to Russia. New York Times E2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brookfield 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Brookfield 2001; Wiseman and Werb 2002).

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

Two authors: (Wiseman and Werb 2002)
Three or more authors: (Marcheva et al. 2010)

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