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]

Y. Petroff, Physics. The electronic structure of liquid lead, Science 306 (2004) 2200–2201.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Pohrt, V.L. Popov, Contact stiffness of randomly rough surfaces, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3293.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. Hong, T.J. Mosca, L. Luo, Teneurins instruct synaptic partner matching in an olfactory map, Nature 484 (2012) 201–207.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G.E.J. Poinern, R.K. Brundavanam, X. Thi Le, P.K. Nicholls, M.A. Cake, D. Fawcett, The synthesis, characterisation and in vivo study of a bioceramic for potential tissue regeneration applications, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F. Lagraña, E-mail and Behavioral Changes, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

L.O. Trussell, A.N. Popper, R.R. Fay, eds., Synaptic Mechanisms in the Auditory System, Springer, New York, NY, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.S. Ross, Incidentally Discovered Micropapillary Thyroid Cancer, in: D.S. Cooper, C. Durante (Eds.), Thyroid Cancer: A Case-Based Approach, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 37–43.

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]

T. Hale, The Voyager Golden Record Is Being Re-Issued, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-voyager-golden-record-is-being-reissued-/ (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, D.C. Charter Schools: Strengthening Monitoring and Process When Schools Close Could Improve Accountability and Ease Student Transitions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.E. Pratt, Investigating educational systems, leadership, and school culture: A holistic approach, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2014.

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]

J. Markoff, A Would-Be Father of A.I, New York Times (2016) B1.

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