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

Mandavilli, A., 2004. Struggling to make an impact. Nature 430, 935.

A journal article with 2 authors

Georgianna, D.R., Mayfield, S.P., 2012. Exploiting diversity and synthetic biology for the production of algal biofuels. Nature 488, 329–335.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roberts, L., Stone, R., Sugden, A., 2009. The rise of restoration ecology. Science 325, 555.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wilman, R.J., Gerssen, J., Bower, R.G., Morris, S.L., Bacon, R., de Zeeuw, P.T., Davies, R.L., 2005. The discovery of a galaxy-wide superwind from a young massive galaxy at redshift z approximately 3. Nature 436, 227–229.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barron, E.N., 2013. Game Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Stevenson, R.J., Pan, Y., Kociolek, J.P., Kingston, J.C. (Eds.), 2006. Advances in Algal Biology: A Commemoration of the Work of Rex Lowe, Developments in Hydrobiology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Gu, Q., Mendonça, D., 2009. Group Information-Seeking Behavior in Emergency Response, in: Linkov, I., Ferguson, E., Magar, V.S. (Eds.), Real-Time and Deliberative Decision Making: Application to Emerging Stressors, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 55–76.

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

Davis, J., 2016. Vast Annual Migration Of Insects Across The UK Recorded At High Altitude [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vast-annual-migration-of-insects-across-the-uk-recorded-at-high-altitude/ (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, 1975. Federal Guidance Needed if Halfway Houses Are To Be a Viable Alternative to Prison (No. GGD-75-70). 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

Peterson, G.G., 2013. Long-Term Effects of Care Management on Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Medicare Costs Among Chronically-Ill Medicare Beneficiaries (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Says Bush Is Afraid Of Debating “Man to Man.” New York Times 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mandavilli, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Georgianna and Mayfield, 2012; Mandavilli, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Georgianna and Mayfield, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wilman et al., 2005)

About the journal

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

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