How to format your references using the Scientific Drilling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scientific Drilling. 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

Hentze, M. W.: Protein synthesis. Believe it or not-translation in the nucleus, Science, 293, 1058–1059, 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pomerantz, R. T. and O’Donnell, M.: The replisome uses mRNA as a primer after colliding with RNA polymerase, Nature, 456, 762–766, 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

Batista, C. A. S., Larson, R. G., and Kotov, N. A.: Nonadditivity of nanoparticle interactions, Science, 350, 1242477, 2015.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Krawczyk, M., Milkiewicz, M., Marschall, H.-U., Bartz, C., Grünhage, F., Wunsch, E., Milkiewicz, P., and Lammert, F.: Variant adiponutrin confers genetic protection against cholestatic itch, Sci. Rep., 4, 6374, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ciobanu, C. V., Wang, C.-Z., and Ho, K.-M.: Atomic Structure Prediction of Nanostructures, Clusters and Surfaces, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2013.

An edited book

Kumar, S.: Managing Product Life Cycle in a Supply Chain: Context A Prescription Based on Empirical Research, edited by: Krob, W. A., Springer US, Boston, MA, XII, 160 p pp., 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Camenisch, J., Dubovitskaya, M., Lehmann, A., Neven, G., Paquin, C., and Preiss, F.-S.: Concepts and Languages for Privacy-Preserving Attribute-Based Authentication, in: Policies and Research in Identity Management: Third IFIP WG 11.6 Working Conference, IDMAN 2013, London, UK, April 8-9, 2013. Proceedings, edited by: Fischer-Hübner, S., Leeuw, E. de, and Mitchell, C., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 34–52, 2013.

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 Scientific Drilling.

Blog post

What Do Olympians Actually Eat?

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: Federal Highway Administration: Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operations, Lighting Devices, Reflectors, and Electrical Equipment, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Phillips, T. L.: “Outsider Within” Narratives of Diversity Leadership: An Exploratory Case Study of Executive Women of Color, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2012.

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

Billard, M.: She Never Outgrew These Shoes, New York Times, 13th May, E6, 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hentze, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hentze, 2001; Pomerantz and O’Donnell, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Pomerantz and O’Donnell, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Krawczyk et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Scientific Drilling
Abbreviation	Sci. Drill.
ISSN (print)	1816-8957
ISSN (online)	1816-3459
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Mechanical Engineering