How to format your references using the International Journal of Nuclear Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Nuclear Security. 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

S. Sastry, The relationship between fragility, configurational entropy and the potential energy landscape of glass-forming liquids. Nature. 409, 164–167 (2001).

A journal article with 2 authors

R. Zatorre, J. McGill, Music, the food of neuroscience? Nature. 434, 312–315 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

J. A. Long, K. Trinajstic, Z. Johanson, Devonian arthrodire embryos and the origin of internal fertilization in vertebrates. Nature. 457, 1124–1127 (2009).

A journal article with 10 or more authors

M. J. Siegert, J. C. Ellis-Evans, M. Tranter, C. Mayer, J. R. Petit, A. Salamatin, J. C. Priscu, Physical, chemical and biological processes in Lake Vostok and other Antarctic subglacial lakes. Nature. 414, 603–609 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

P. I. Good, J. W. Hardin, Common Errors in Statistics (And How to Avoid Them) (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012).

An edited book

A. Machin, N. Stehr, Eds., Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, 2016), zu / schriften der Zeppelin Universität. zwischen Wirtschaft, Kultur und Politik.

A chapter in an edited book

D. Chabaud, A. L. d’Hautefort, S. Saussier, in New Developments in the Theory of Networks: Franchising, Alliances and Cooperatives, M. Tuunanen, J. Windsperger, G. Cliquet, G. Hendrikse, Eds. (Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, 2011), Contributions to Management Science, pp. 59–74.

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 Nuclear Security.

Blog post

K. Hamilton, What Is The Absolute Limit For Human Athletes? Here’s The Science.. IFLScience (2016), (available at https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/what-is-the-absolute-limit-for-human-athletes-heres-the-science/).

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

Government Accountability Office, “Bridge Condition Assessment: Inaccurate Data May Cause Inequities in the Apportionment of Federal-Aid Funds” (RCED-88-75, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

L. J. Jones, thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA (2017).

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

M. W. Walsh, A County In Alabama Puts Off Bankruptcy. New York Times (2011), p. B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Nuclear Security
Abbreviation	Int. J. Nucl. Secur.
ISSN (print)	2376-9955
Scope