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]

Oettl A. Sociology: Honour the helpful. Nature 2012;489:496–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lu Y, Conrad R. In situ stable isotope probing of methanogenic archaea in the rice rhizosphere. Science 2005;309:1088–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Halter WE, Pettke T, Heinrich CA. The origin of Cu/Au ratios in porphyry-type ore deposits. Science 2002;296:1844–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Vo LT, Kinney MA, Liu X, Zhang Y, Barragan J, Sousa PM, et al. Regulation of embryonic haematopoietic multipotency by EZH1. Nature 2018;553:506–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ness L. Securing Utility and Energy Infrastructures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Popper AN, Fay RR, editors. Perspectives on Auditory Research. vol. 50. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Amico KR. Adherence to HIV Treatment as Prevention and Preexposure Prophylaxis. In: Eaton LA, Kalichman SC, editors. Biomedical Advances in HIV Prevention: Social and Behavioral Perspectives, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 69–108.

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]

Andrew E. Mangy Marsupials: Wombats Are Catching A Deadly Disease, And We Urgently Need A Plan To Help Them. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mangy-marsupials-wombats-are-catching-deadly-disease-and-we-urgently-need-plan/ (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. D.C. Court Orders. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Zanulabe Din MO. Engineered Synchrony of Bacterial Lysis and its Applications. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 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]

Shpigel B. A Contender Reaches a New High. New York Times 2017:SP1.

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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