How to format your references using the International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and Technology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Halloran, Materials science. Making better ceramic composites with ice, Science. 311 (2006) 479–480.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Bienz, X. He, Biochemistry. A lipid linchpin for Wnt-Fz docking, Science. 337 (2012) 44–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Sugden, J. Smith, E. Pennisi, The future of forests, Science. 320 (2008) 1435.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Wang, J. Xiao, B. Peng, F. Xing, K.-F. So, G.L. Tipoe, B. Lin, Retinal structure and function preservation by polysaccharides of wolfberry in a mouse model of retinal degeneration, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7601.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Moreau, T. Adali, Blind Identification and Separation of Complex-Valued Signals, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

F. Drewes, ed., Implementation and Application of Automata: 20th International Conference, CIAA 2015, Umeå, Sweden, August 18-21, 2015, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L.C. Lew Yan Voon, M. Willatzen, Method of Invariants, in: L.C. Lew Yan Voon (Ed.), The k p Method: Electronic Properties of Semiconductors, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 79–151.

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 International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, France Becomes First Country To Ban Plastic Cups, Plates, And Cutlery, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/france-becomes-first-country-to-ban-plastic-cups-plates-and-cutlery/ (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, Customs Automation: Effectiveness of Entry Summary Selectivity System Is Unknown, 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]

S. Kratovac, Developmental alterations in inhibitory neurotransmission in the Fragile X Syndrome mouse basolateral amygdala, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2012.

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]

G. Vecsey, St. John’s Takes an Opener, With No Fight From UConn, New York Times. (2010) B13.

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	International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and Technology
ISSN (print)	2468-6050
Scope