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

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

Spurgeon, D., 2002. Drawing back the talent: Canada. Nature 415, 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Singh, S.C., Macdonald, K.C., 2009. Mantle skewness and ridge segmentation. Nature 458, E11-2; author reply E12-3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bowman, D., King, G., Tapponnier, P., 2003. Slip partitioning by elastoplastic propagation of oblique slip at depth. Science 300, 1121–1123.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kang, Y., Kuybeda, O., de Waal, P.W., Mukherjee, S., Van Eps, N., Dutka, P., Zhou, X.E., Bartesaghi, A., Erramilli, S., Morizumi, T., Gu, X., Yin, Y., Liu, P., Jiang, Y., Meng, X., Zhao, G., Melcher, K., Ernst, O.P., Kossiakoff, A.A., Subramaniam, S., Xu, H.E., 2018. Publisher Correction: Cryo-EM structure of human rhodopsin bound to an inhibitory G protein. Nature 561, E44.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ibe, O.C., 2011. Fundamentals of Stochastic Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Grampp, S. (Ed.), 2008. Radiology of Osteoporosis, 2nd Revised Edition. ed, Medical Radiology, Diagnostic Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Peyruchaud, O., Karin, N.J., 2009. Lysophosphatidic Acid: Role in Bone and Bone Cancer, in: Bronner, F., Farach-Carson, M.C. (Eds.), Bone and Cancer. Springer, London, pp. 73–88.

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 Science and Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. What Do The Other Planets In Our Solar System Smell Like? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-does-rest-solar-system-smell/ (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, 2003. Transportation Security: Post-September 11th Initiatives and Long-Term Challenges (No. GAO-03-616T). 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

Moreno, S., 2009. Mother-child relationships: Females behind bars and their children (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

Gurley, G., 2016. On the Town With a Fleet Week Newbie. New York Times ST1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spurgeon, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Singh and Macdonald, 2009; Spurgeon, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Singh and Macdonald, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Kang et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Pet. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0920-4105
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Fuel Technology