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

Smaglik, P. 2004. High road to Scotland. Nature, 432, 128–129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Walck, J. and Dixon, K. 2009. Time to future-proof plants in storage. Nature, 462, 721.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kolodner, R.D., Putnam, C.D. and Myung, K. 2002. Maintenance of genome stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297, 552–557.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chen, C.-L., Qi, J., Tao, J., Zuckermann, R.N. and DeYoreo, J.J. 2014. Tuning calcite morphology and growth acceleration by a rational design of highly stable protein-mimetics. Scientific reports, 4, 6266.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee, Y.S. 2011. Self-Assembly and Nanotechnology Systems.

An edited book

Quarteroni, A. (ed.). 2015. Modeling the Heart and the Circulatory System. MS&A.

A chapter in an edited book

Hertel, D., Leuschner, C., Harteveld, M. and Wiens, M. 2007. Fine root mass, distribution and regeneration in disturbed primary forests and secondary forests of the moist tropics. In: Tscharntke, T., Leuschner, C., Zeller, M., Guhardja, E. and Bidin, A. (eds) Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins: Linking Ecological, Economic and Social Constraints of Land Use and Conservation. Environmental Science and Engineering, 87–106.

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

Andrew, E. 2014. NASA’s Visualization Explorer App Now Available on All iOS Devices. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/technology/nasa’s-visualization-explorer-app-now-available-all-ios-devices/.

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. 2009. Federal Aviation Administration: Human Capital System Incorporates Many Leading Practices, but Improving Employees’ Satisfaction with Their Workplace Remains a Challenge. GAO-10-89.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhu, H. 2012. Outcomes of China Free Antiretroviral Treatment Program, 2003–2010. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina.

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

Greenhouse, L. 2006. Court Veteran Remembers A Scary Start. New York Times, A31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004; Walck and Dixon 2009).

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

Two authors: (Walck and Dixon 2009)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

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

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