How to format your references using the Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources. 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

Price, C., 2000. Evidence for a link between global lightning activity and upper tropospheric water vapour. Nature 406, 290–293.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stephens, R., Richey, M., 2013. A business view on U.S. education. Science 340, 313–314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Imai, T., Suzuki, M., Sakano, H., 2006. Odorant receptor-derived cAMP signals direct axonal targeting. Science 314, 657–661.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Finnerty, J.R., Pang, K., Burton, P., Paulson, D., Martindale, M.Q., 2004. Origins of bilateral symmetry: Hox and dpp expression in a sea anemone. Science 304, 1335–1337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Idelberger, K., 2011. The World of Footbridges. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Gong, Z., Luo, X., Chen, J., Lei, J., Wang, F.L. (Eds.), 2011. Web Information Systems and Mining: International Conference, WISM 2011, Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Grimes, A., Grinter, R.E., 2007. Designing Persuasion: Health Technology for Low-Income African American Communities, in: Kort, Y. de, IJsselsteijn, W., Midden, C., Eggen, B., Fogg, B.J. (Eds.), Persuasive Technology: Second International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2007, Palo Alto, CA, USA, April 26-27, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 24–35.

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 Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. British Student No Longer Wants to Travel to Mars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1987. NASA ADP Systems: Information on the Automated Mission and Payload Tracking System (No. IMTEC-87-38FS). 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

Mhatre, A.B., 2009. Zone-Clipper (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2010. Treasury Hid A.I.G. Loss, Report Says. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Price, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Price, 2000; Stephens and Richey, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Stephens and Richey, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Finnerty et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources
ISSN (print)	2213-3976
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment