How to format your references using the Natural Gas Industry B citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Natural Gas Industry B. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
[1]
Kawaoka Y. H5N1: Flu transmission work is urgent. Nature 2012;482:155.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Schiermeier Q, Smaglik P. Homeward bound European Union. Nature 2005;433:440–1.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Lindström NO, Hohenstein P, Davies JA. Nephrons require Rho-kinase for proximal-distal polarity development. Sci Rep 2013;3:2692.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
[1]
Wang Y, Juranek S, Li H, Sheng G, Tuschl T, Patel DJ. Structure of an argonaute silencing complex with a seed-containing guide DNA and target RNA duplex. Nature 2008;456:921–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Lueder E. 3D Displays. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.
An edited book
[1]
Liberty J. Programming Reactive Extensions and LINQ. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Agarwal A, Gupta S, Sharma R. Basic Semen Analysis. In: Agarwal A, Gupta S, Sharma R, editors. Andrological Evaluation of Male Infertility: A Laboratory Guide, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 39–46.

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 Natural Gas Industry B.

Blog post
[1]
Luntz S. Largest Survey Yet Finds Fluoridation Safe And Effective. IFLScience 2016.

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
[1]
Government Accountability Office. Opportunities and Constraints for Expanding Use of Research Facilities at the National Bureau of Standards. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Henry ME. A nutrition education program to change college dorm dwellers’ eating patterns. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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
[1]
Baker AL, David Goodman J. Officer Faced a Man on the Run. New York Times 2015:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal titleNatural Gas Industry B
ISSN (print)2352-8540
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