How to format your references using the Annals of Nuclear Energy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Nuclear Energy. 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

Ijspeert, A.J., 2014. Biorobotics: using robots to emulate and investigate agile locomotion. Science 346, 196–203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickens, M., Goldstrohm, A., 2003. Molecular biology. A place to die, a place to sleep. Science 300, 753–755.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, M., Atkinson, K.R., Baughman, R.H., 2004. Multifunctional carbon nanotube yarns by downsizing an ancient technology. Science 306, 1358–1361.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Frega, M., Tedesco, M., Massobrio, P., Pesce, M., Martinoia, S., 2014. Network dynamics of 3D engineered neuronal cultures: a new experimental model for in-vitro electrophysiology. Sci. Rep. 4, 5489.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lunn, G., 2005. HPLC Methods for Recently Approved Pharmaceuticals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bruno, I., Jany-Catrice, F., Touchelay, B. (Eds.), 2016. The Social Sciences of Quantification: From Politics of Large Numbers to Target-Driven Policies, Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Zeiliger, R., Esnault, L., 2008. The Constructivist Mapping of Internet Information at Work with Nestor, in: Okada, A., Shum, S.B., Sherborne, T. (Eds.), Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London, pp. 89–111.

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 Annals of Nuclear Energy.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2017. Amazing Footage Of Great White Sticking Its Nose In A Shark Cage [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/amazing-footage-of-great-white-sticking-its-nose-in-a-shark-cage/ (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, 1988. Air Traffic Control: Continued Improvements Needed in FAA’s Management of the NAS Plan (No. RCED-89-7). 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

Bao, J., 2010. Design enhancements in repetitive and interative learning control (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Hodgman, J., 2016. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ijspeert, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ijspeert, 2014; Wickens and Goldstrohm, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Wickens and Goldstrohm, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Frega et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Nuclear Energy
Abbreviation	Ann. Nucl. Energy
ISSN (print)	0306-4549
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering