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]

J.A. Davies, Biological techniques: Kidney tissue grown from induced stem cells, Nature 526 (2015) 512–513.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F.L.W. Ratnieks, N.L. Carreck, Ecology. Clarity on honey bee collapse?, Science 327 (2010) 152–153.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Maamar, A. Raj, D. Dubnau, Noise in gene expression determines cell fate in Bacillus subtilis, Science 317 (2007) 526–529.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.L. Turgeon, D.P. McDonnell, K.A. Martin, P.M. Wise, Hormone therapy: physiological complexity belies therapeutic simplicity, Science 304 (2004) 1269–1273.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P.I. Good, J.W. Hardin, Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

K. Matsuda, Advanced Energy Saving and its Applications in Industry, Springer, London, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Ciardiello, F. De Vita, Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors in cancer therapy, in: P.L. Herrling, A. Matter, R.M. Schultz (Eds.), Advances in Targeted Cancer Therapy, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2005: pp. 93–115.

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]

E. Andrew, Does Publication Bias Make Antidepressants Seem More Effective At Treating Anxiety Than They Really Are?, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/does-publication-bias-make-antidepressants-seem-more-effective-treating-anxiety/ (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, District of Columbia Public Schools: School Year 1996-97 Enrollment Count Vulnerable to Errors, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V. Kapatsinski, The architecture of grammar in artificial grammar learning: Formal biases in the acquisition of morphophonology and the nature of the learning task, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2009.

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. Williams, A Nazi Script Comes to Light, New York Times (2017) C5.

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