How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 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]

K. A. Kelley, “Geophysics. Inside Earth runs hot and cold,” Science, vol. 344, no. 6179, pp. 51–52, Apr. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Sinervo and J. Clobert, “Morphs, dispersal behavior, genetic similarity, and the evolution of cooperation,” Science, vol. 300, no. 5627, pp. 1949–1951, Jun. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Schmidt, Q.-X. Jiang, and R. MacKinnon, “Phospholipids and the origin of cationic gating charges in voltage sensors,” Nature, vol. 444, no. 7120, pp. 775–779, Dec. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Wu, X. Yang, X. Duan, L. Cui, and G. Li, “Exogenous expression of marine lectins DlFBL and SpRBL induces cancer cell apoptosis possibly through PRMT5-E2F-1 pathway,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4505, Mar. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. C. Paterson, Lean Auditing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

O. J. Rojas, Ed., Cellulose Chemistry and Properties: Fibers, Nanocelluloses and Advanced Materials, 1st ed. 2016., vol. 271. in Advances in Polymer Science, vol. 271. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. I. Barenblatt, “Scaling phenomena in fatigue and fracture,” in Advances in Fracture Research: Honour and Plenary Lectures Presented at the 11th International Conference on Fracture (ICF11), Held in Turin, Italy, on March 20–25, 2005, A. Carpinteri, Y.-W. Mai, and R. O. Ritchie, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006, pp. 19–35.

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 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, “Climate Change And Poverty Are As Much Of A Threat As Terrorism For Many Young People,” IFLScience.

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, “Earth Observing System: NASA Needs to Reassess Its EOSDIS Development Strategy,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-IMTEC-92-7, Feb. 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. J. Kelly, “What experiences create and nurture a love of science?,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2016.

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. C. McKINLEY Jr, “Rikers Guards Accused of Turning a Blind Eye to, or Even Enabling, Sex Assaults,” New York Times, p. A19, Sep. 22, 2017.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0018-9499
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nuclear and High Energy Physics