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

Schiermeier, Q., 2000. Austrian physics meeting passes without boycott. Nature 406, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fossum, A., Carlsson, M., 2005. High-frequency acoustic waves are not sufficient to heat the solar chromosphere. Nature 435, 919–921.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berson, D.M., Dunn, F.A., Takao, M., 2002. Phototransduction by retinal ganglion cells that set the circadian clock. Science 295, 1070–1073.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Carilli, C.L., Lewis, G.F., Djorgovski, S.G., Mahabal, A., Cox, P., Bertoldi, F., Omont, A., 2003. A molecular Einstein ring: imaging a starburst disk surrounding a quasi-stellar object. Science 300, 773–775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaltashov, I.A., Eyles, S.J., 2005. Mass Spectrometry in Biophysics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Madria, S., Hara, T. (Eds.), 2015. Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery: 17th International Conference, DaWaK 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015. ed, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bouleau, N., 2008. Dirichlet Forms Methods: An Application to the Propagation of the Error Due to the Euler Scheme, in: Dalang, R.C., Russo, F., Dozzi, M. (Eds.), Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications V: Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, May 2005, Progress in Probability. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 57–74.

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

Hamilton, K., 2016. What Is The Absolute Limit For Human Athletes? Here’s The Science.. [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/what-is-the-absolute-limit-for-human-athletes-heres-the-science/ (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, 2014. Data Center Consolidation: Reporting Can Be Improved to Reflect Substantial Planned Savings (No. GAO-14-713). 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

Rosales, J.K., 2009. California’s three strikes law: A policy analysis (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

(nyt), S.K., 2001. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Agreement On Moldova Rebels. New York Times A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Fossum and Carlsson, 2005; Schiermeier, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Fossum and Carlsson, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Carilli et al., 2003)

About the journal

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