How to format your references using the Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bonetta L (2006) Protein purification: protein purification for structural proteomics. Nature 439:1018

A journal article with 2 authors

Sliwkowski MX, Mellman I (2013) Antibody therapeutics in cancer. Science 341:1192–1198

A journal article with 3 authors

Messenger S, Keller LP, Lauretta DS (2005) Supernova olivine from cometary dust. Science 309:737–741

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Garcia-Viloca M, Gao J, Karplus M, Truhlar DG (2004) How enzymes work: analysis by modern rate theory and computer simulations. Science 303:186–195

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wartenberg TE (2013) A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Catania B, Ivanović M, Thalheim B (eds) (2010) Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 14th East European Conference, ADBIS 2010, Novi Sad, Serbia, September 20-24, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bas P, Furon T, Cayre F, et al (2016) Secure Design. In: Furon T, Cayre F, Doërr G, Mathon B (eds) Watermarking Security. Springer, Singapore, pp 63–102

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 Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Scientists Finally Get To Grips With Monkey Language. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2009) Surface Transportation: Clear Federal Role and Criteria-Based Selection Process Could Improve Three National and Regional Infrastructure Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zinda ES (2017) American Cerberus: Pit Bulls and Psyche in the United States. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Williams J (2017) Gallery of Horrors. New York Times BR4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bonetta 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bonetta 2006; Sliwkowski and Mellman 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sliwkowski and Mellman 2013)
Three or more authors: (Garcia-Viloca et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology
Abbreviation	J. Pet. Explor. Prod. Technol.
ISSN (print)	2190-0558
ISSN (online)	2190-0566
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology General Energy