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

Rausher, M.D., 2001. Co-evolution and plant resistance to natural enemies. Nature 411, 857–864.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ronald, P.C., Beutler, B., 2010. Plant and animal sensors of conserved microbial signatures. Science 330, 1061–1064.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fashami, M.S., Atulasimha, J., Bandyopadhyay, S., 2013. Energy dissipation and error probability in fault-tolerant binary switching. Sci. Rep. 3, 3204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tanaka, Y., Fukushima, H., Okanoya, K., Myowa-Yamakoshi, M., 2014. Mothers’ multimodal information processing is modulated by multimodal interactions with their infants. Sci. Rep. 4, 6623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Summerhayes, S.D., 2016. CDM Regulations 2015 Procedures Manual. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Wantzen, K.M., Rothhaupt, K.-O., Mörtl, M., Cantonati, M., -Tóth, L.G., Fischer, P. (Eds.), 2008. Ecological Effects of Water-Level Fluctuations in Lakes, Developments in Hydrobiology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Dargahi, F., Rahmani, A.M., Jabbehdari, S., 2009. Data Gathering Based on Nodes’ Credit in Wireless Sensor Network, in: Kim, T.-H., Yang, L.T., Park, J.H., Chang, A.C.-C., Vasilakos, T., Yeo, S.-S. (Eds.), Advances in Communication and Networking: Second International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, FGCN 2008, Sanya, Hainan Island, China, December 13-15, 2008. Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 55–62.

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 Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. New App Can Literally Improve Your Eyesight [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-app-can-literally-improve-your-eyesight/ (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, 1979. National Bureau of Standards Needs Better Management of Its Computer Resources To Improve Program Effectiveness (No. CED-79-39). 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

Caltrider, C.S., 2017. Critical Pedagogy Unit of Ceramics Instruction: Fostering Civic Engagement in California High School Students (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

Shear, M.D., Goodstein, L., Haberman, M., 2017. Trump Is Expected to Relax Tax Rules on Churches That Actively Take Part in Politics. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rausher, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Rausher, 2001; Ronald and Beutler, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ronald and Beutler, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Tanaka 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