How to format your references using the Fusion Engineering and Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fusion Engineering and Design. 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]

P. McFadden, Tech.Sight. Biosensors. Broadband biodetection: Holmes on a chip, Science 297 (2002) 2075–2076.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Ueshima, T. Asami, Evolution: single-gene speciation by left-right reversal, Nature 425 (2003) 679.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.J. Royle, A.F. Russell, A.J. Wilson, The evolution of flexible parenting, Science 345 (2014) 776–781.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Zhang, L. Zhu, R. Wang, L. Miao, H. Jiang, H. Yuan, H. Ma, N. Chen, Genetic variants in let-7/Lin28 modulate the risk of oral cavity cancer in a Chinese Han population, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7434.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Simmons, E. Dalgleish, Corporate Actions, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

M.N. Favorskaya, L.C. Jain, eds., Computer Vision in Control Systems-2: Innovations in Practice, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Mac an Airchinnigh, Let Me Tell You Something about (Y)our Culture?, in: S. Kurbanoğlu, U. Al, P. Lepon Erdoğan, Y. Tonta, N. Uçak (Eds.), Technological Convergence and Social Networks in Information Management: Second International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, IMCW 2010, Ankara, Turkey, September 22-24, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 31–44.

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 Fusion Engineering and Design.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Ancient Genomes Reveal Mass Migrations During the Bronze Age, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/101-ancient-genomes-reveal-mass-migrations-during-bronze-age/ (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, Aviation Safety: New Regulations for Deicing Aircraft Could Be Strengthened, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Beaven, Epiphanies of soul: “When the bolts of the universe fly open.” A depth psychological contemplation of wonder, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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]

T. Kelly, Performing Miracles, With Wrench and Rivet, New York Times (2006) 144.

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	Fusion Engineering and Design
Abbreviation	Fusion Eng. Des.
ISSN (print)	0920-3796
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering General Materials Science