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:

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

[1]

Jungwirth P. A chemist realizes that popularity is no measure of strength. Nature 2009;460:555.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Packer A, Clay K. Soil pathogens and spatial patterns of seedling mortality in a temperate tree. Nature 2000;404:278–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Back JM, McCue SW, Moroney TJ. Including nonequilibrium interface kinetics in a continuum model for melting nanoscaled particles. Sci Rep 2014;4:7066.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Beddington J, Cooper CL, Field J, Goswami U, Huppert FA, Jenkins R, et al. The mental wealth of nations. Nature 2008;455:1057–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Janovy J, Esch GW. A Century of Parasitology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Sun C, Bednarz T, Pham TD, Vallotton P, Wang D, editors. Signal and Image Analysis for Biomedical and Life Sciences. vol. 823. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Balanov A, Janson N, Postnov D, Sosnovtseva O. Homoclinic Mechanism of Synchronization of Periodic Oscillations. In: Janson N, Postnov D, Sosnovtseva O, editors. Synchronization: From Simple to Complex, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 105–20.

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. Scientists Create A Supernova Explosion In The Lab. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-create-supernova-explosion-lab/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Rural Utilities Service: Opportunities to Operate Electricity and Telecommunications Loan Programs More Effectively. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lieberman DS. “Stroke Your Thoroughbreds and Kick Your Donkeys”: Power and the Secondary Administrative Distribution of Teaching Assignments. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2017.

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]

Dackman L. When You Wish Upon a Saint, Watch What You Ask For. New York Times 2006:ST9.

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 title	Natural Gas Industry B
ISSN (print)	2352-8540
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