How to format your references using the Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables. 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

[1]

W.W. Chadwick Jr, Earth science. A submarine volcano is caught in the act, Science. 314 (2006) 1887–1888.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Shafiq, K.C. Veluvolu, Surface chest motion decomposition for cardiovascular monitoring, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5093.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Wise, M. Pawlyn, M. Braungart, Eco-engineering: Living in a materials world, Nature. 494 (2013) 172–175.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Sekiyama, S. Miyauchi, T. Imaruoka, H. Egusa, T. Tashiro, Body image as a visuomotor transformation device revealed in adaptation to reversed vision, Nature. 407 (2000) 374–377.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Cox, An Introduction to LTE, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

V.G. Ivancevic, T.T. Ivancevic, eds., Geometrical Dynamics of Complex Systems: A Unified Modelling Approach to Physics, Control, Biomechanics, Neurodynamics and Psycho-Socio-Economical Dynamics, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

O. Durán, N. Rodriguez, L. Perez, Selection and Optimization of Alternative Modular Products Using Evolutionary Computing, in: D. Ślęzak, T.-H. Kim, A. Stoica, B.-H. Kang (Eds.), Control and Automation: International Conference, CA 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, CA 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009.Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 35–46.

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 Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables.

Blog post

[1]

K. Evans, Scientists Glue Shark Teeth To Electric Saw To Mimic How They Bite, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-glue-shark-teeth-to-electric-saw-to-mimic-how-they-bite/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Automobile Weight and Safety, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.C. DeClerk, The relationship between retail store manager leadership styles and employee generational cohort, performance, and satisfaction, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2008.

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

[1]

E. St. John Kelly, With Historic Brownstone Gone, Is Development at Hand?, New York Times. (1997) 1410.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables
Abbreviation	At. Data Nucl. Data Tables
ISSN (print)	0092-640X
Scope	Nuclear and High Energy Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics