How to format your references using the Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources. 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

Bunk, S., 2001. Better microscopes will be instrumental in nanotechnology development. Nature 410, 127–129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Glimcher, P.W., Rustichini, A., 2004. Neuroeconomics: the consilience of brain and decision. Science 306, 447–452.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harker, D.E., Woodward, C.E., Wooden, D.H., 2005. The dust grains from 9P/Tempel 1 before and after the encounter with Deep Impact. Science 310, 278–280.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mangalassery, S., Sjögersten, S., Sparkes, D.L., Sturrock, C.J., Craigon, J., Mooney, S.J., 2014. To what extent can zero tillage lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from temperate soils? Sci. Rep. 4, 4586.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’Homme, R., 2014. Flows and Chemical Reactions in an Electromagnetic Field. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nordenstreng, K., 2016. A History of the International Movement of Journalists: Professionalism Versus Politics, Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Aziz, C.E., Wymore, R.A., Steffan, R.J., 2013. Bioaugmentation Considerations, in: Stroo, H.F., Leeson, A., Ward, C.H. (Eds.), Bioaugmentation for Groundwater Remediation. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 141–169.

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 Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. “Ring Of Fire” Eclipse Sweeps Across South America And Africa [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/ring-of-fire-eclipse-sweeps-across-south-america-and-africa/ (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, 1989. Federal Research: Information on Site Selection Process for DOE’s Super Collider (No. RCED-90-33BR). 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

Pee, G.-Y., 2008. Sonochemical Remediation of Freshwater Sediments Contaminated with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Kanter, J., 2017. Europe Weighs Tax Plans Aimed at Online Giants. New York Times B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bunk, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bunk, 2001; Glimcher and Rustichini, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Glimcher and Rustichini, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Mangalassery et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources
ISSN (print)	2213-3976
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment