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

Rosenberg, A. A.: Fishing for certainty, Nature, 449, 989, 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grubb, M. S. and Burrone, J.: Activity-dependent relocation of the axon initial segment fine-tunes neuronal excitability, Nature, 465, 1070–1074, 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boulé, J.-B., Vega, L. R., and Zakian, V. A.: The yeast Pif1p helicase removes telomerase from telomeric DNA, Nature, 438, 57–61, 2005.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Frusawa, H., Manabe, T., Kagiyama, E., Hirano, K., Kameta, N., Masuda, M., and Shimizu, T.: Electric moulding of dispersed lipid nanotubes into a nanofluidic device, Sci. Rep., 3, 2165, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Makower, T.: Touching the City, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

Di Valentin, C., Botti, S., and Cococcioni, M. (Eds.): First Principles Approaches to Spectroscopic Properties of Complex Materials, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XII, 392 p. 87 illus., 62 illus. in color pp., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Wieland, T., Fenne, M., and Stöcker, B.: Background Data Acquisition and Carrying: The BlueDACS Project, in: Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2006: 19th International Conference, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006. Proceedings, edited by: Grass, W., Sick, B., and Waldschmidt, K., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 56–68, 2006.

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

2.7 billion-year old fossilised raindrops:

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: Agencies Should Encourage Greater Computer Use on Federal Design Projects, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Razo, S. I.: Parenting practices of Latina mothers and children’s behavior outcomes, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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

Sisario, B.: Drake Is Back on Top, and Has a New Video, Too, New York Times, 26th September, C3, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rosenberg, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Grubb and Burrone, 2010; Rosenberg, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Grubb and Burrone, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Frusawa et al., 2013)

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