How to format your references using the Petroleum Geoscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Petroleum Geoscience. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kaiser, J. 2000. TOXICOLOGY: Just How Bad Is Dioxin? Science (New York, N.Y.), 288, 1941b–1944b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huneycutt, A.J. and Saykally, R.J. 2003. Chemistry. Building solutions--one molecule at a time. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299, 1329–1330.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mercader, J., Panger, M. and Boesch, C. 2002. Excavation of a chimpanzee stone tool site in the African rainforest. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296, 1452–1455.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Possemato, R., Marks, K.M., et al. 2011. Functional genomics reveal that the serine synthesis pathway is essential in breast cancer. Nature, 476, 346–350.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lehto, J. and Hou, X. 2010. Chemistry and Analysis of Radionuclides.

An edited book

Qi, E., Shen, J. and Dou, R. (eds). 2013. The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management: Assistive Technology of Industrial Engineering.

A chapter in an edited book

Schmitz, R.A., Daniel, R., Deppenmeier, U. and Gottschalk, G. 2006. The Anaerobic Way of Life. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, K.-H. and Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes: Volume 2: Ecophysiology and Biochemistry. 86–101.

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 Petroleum Geoscience.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2015. Orangutans Come Down From The Trees. IFLScience.

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. 1972. Can Cost Accounting Help Manage the Rising Costs of ADP Operations? 091000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lanigan, L.G. 2012. Effects of Two Cancer Genes, HTLV-1 Tax and E-Cadherin, on Cancer Development and Progression. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University.

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

Kelly, S. 1999. Spring Children’s Books; Stuff and Nonsense. New York Times, 723.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaiser 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kaiser 2000; Huneycutt and Saykally 2003).

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

Two authors: (Huneycutt and Saykally 2003)
Three or more authors: (Possemato et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Petroleum Geoscience
Abbreviation	Pet. Geosci.
ISSN (print)	1354-0793
ISSN (online)	2041-496X
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Economic Geology Geochemistry and Petrology Geology Fuel Technology