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]

Nagaosa N. Physics. A new state of quantum matter. Science 2007;318:758–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kelley KA, Cottrell E. Water and the oxidation state of subduction zone magmas. Science 2009;325:605–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lappala A, Zaccone A, Terentjev EM. Ratcheted diffusion transport through crowded nanochannels. Sci Rep 2013;3:3103.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Quigg A, Finkel ZV, Irwin AJ, Rosenthal Y, Ho T-Y, Reinfelder JR, et al. The evolutionary inheritance of elemental stoichiometry in marine phytoplankton. Nature 2003;425:291–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Perez A. Network Security. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Choi T-M, editor. Handbook of Newsvendor Problems: Models, Extensions and Applications. vol. 176. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Koufi V, Malamateniou F, Vassilacopoulos G. Privacy-Preserving Access Control for PHR-Based Emergency Medical Systems. In: Koutsouris D-D, Lazakidou AA, editors. Concepts and Trends in Healthcare Information Systems, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 61–78.

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]

Hale T. Koko The Gorilla Gets Kittens For Her Birthday. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/koko-gorilla-making-friends-adorable-kittens/ (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. Aviation Competition: Effects on Consumers from Domestic Airline Alliances Vary. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jin H. Periodic Motions and Bifurcation Tree in a Periodically Excited Duffing Oscillator with Time-delay. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2014.

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]

Greenhouse L. JUSTICES TO RULE ON A CHALLENGE TO U.S. TRIBUNALS. New York Times 2005: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 title	Natural Gas Industry B
ISSN (print)	2352-8540
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