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]

L. Zender, Cancer: interference identifies immune modulators, Nature 506 (2014) 39–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.V. Talapin, C.B. Murray, PbSe nanocrystal solids for n- and p-channel thin film field-effect transistors, Science 310 (2005) 86–89.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Kuzuyama, J.P. Noel, S.B. Richard, Structural basis for the promiscuous biosynthetic prenylation of aromatic natural products, Nature 435 (2005) 983–987.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Roy, R.D. Zinck, M.J. Bouma, M. Pascual, Epidemic cholera spreads like wildfire, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3710.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.M. Abid, Spacecraft Sensors, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

J. Fürnkranz, T. Scheffer, M. Spiliopoulou, eds., Machine Learning: ECML 2006: 17th European Conference on Machine Learning Berlin, Germany, September 18-22, 2006 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Burgos, C. Tattersall, R. Koper, Representing Adaptive and Adaptable Units of Learning, in: B. Fernández-Manjón, J.M. Sánchez-Pérez, J.A. Gómez-Pulido, M.A. Vega-Rodríguez, J. Bravo-Rodríguez (Eds.), Computers and Education: E-Learning, From Theory to Practice, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 41–56.

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]

R. Andrews, Your Irises Are Lying To You, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/irises-lying-you/ (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, Food Assistance: Child Care Centers Sponsored by Schools Participating in the National School Lunch Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Grigoryan, Feedback 2.0 in online writing instruction: Combining audio-visual and text-based commentary to enhance student revision and writing competency, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2015.

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]

A. Blinder, A.L. Baker, J. David Goodman, Tracing Gun Used to Kill 2 Officers, Officials Wind Up in a Familiar Spot, New York Times (2014) A22.

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