How to format your references using the Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation. 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

Parham, P.: Innate immunity: The unsung heroes. Nature. 423, 20 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Yoo, A.S., Greenwald, I.: LIN-12/Notch activation leads to microRNA-mediated down-regulation of Vav in C. elegans. Science. 310, 1330–1333 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Callou, C., Samzun, A., Zivie, A.: Archaeology: a lion found in the Egyptian tomb of Maïa. Nature. 427, 211–212 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shriner, D., Tekola-Ayele, F., Adeyemo, A., Rotimi, C.N.: Genome-wide genotype and sequence-based reconstruction of the 140,000 year history of modern human ancestry. Sci. Rep. 4, 6055 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tardu, S.: Transport and Coherent Structures in Wall Turbulence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Silva, S.S.D., Davy, F.B. eds: Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Al-Shaer, E., Rahman, M.A.: Intrusion Detection Systems for AMI. In: Rahman, M.A. (ed.) Security and Resiliency Analytics for Smart Grids: Static and Dynamic Approaches. pp. 105–134. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: These Rankings Reveal How Your Country Is Doing In The Fight Against Climate Change, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/these-rankings-reveal-how-your-country-is-doing-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/

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: Answers to Questions With Regard to Statements on the Office of Technology Assessment. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1977)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ku, Y.: Dealing with historical issues in Japan and Germany: Ruling coalitions, transnational activism, and conservative reaction, (2010)

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

Murphy, M.J.O.: Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times, (2015)

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	Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation
Abbreviation	J. Nondestruct. Eval.
ISSN (print)	0195-9298
ISSN (online)	1573-4862
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials