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

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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. Behnia, Physics. Elemental complexity, Science 321 (2008) 497–498.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
J. Vandermeer, I. Perfecto, A keystone mutualism drives pattern in a power function, Science 311 (2006) 1000–1002.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
W.A. Chalifoux, S.K. Reznik, J.L. Leighton, Direct and highly regioselective and enantioselective allylation of β-diketones, Nature 487 (2012) 86–89.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
H.L. Tan, M.T. Bink-Boelkens, C.R. Bezzina, P.C. Viswanathan, G.C. Beaufort-Krol, P.J. van Tintelen, M.P. van den Berg, A.A. Wilde, J.R. Balser, A sodium-channel mutation causes isolated cardiac conduction disease, Nature 409 (2001) 1043–1047.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
R. Moeller, IT Audit, Control, and Security, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.
An edited book
[1]
B.L. McGowan, R.T. Palmer, J.L. Wood, D.F. Hibbler, eds., Black Men in the Academy: Narratives of Resiliency, Achievement, and Success, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
L.P. Carro, P. Golano, N.F. Escajadillo, M.R. Vallejo, V. de Diego, L.C. Pesquera, Normal Articular Anatomy, in: Y.-J. Kim, T.C. Mamisch (Eds.), Hip Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 57–72.

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 Nuclear Materials.

Blog post
[1]
B. Taub, Meatier Than A Meteor: Bakers Send Pie Into Space, IFLScience (2016).

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, Pipeline Safety: Department of Transportation Needs to Complete Regulatory, Data, and Guidance Efforts, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
L. Laffitte, A Comparison of Pull-Out and Co-Teaching Models on the Reading Performance of Third through Fifth Grade Elementary Students with a Diagnosed Specific Learning Disability in Reading, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 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]
J. Hodgman, Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, New York Times (2017) MM20.

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 titleJournal of Nuclear Materials
AbbreviationJ. Nucl. Mater.
ISSN (print)0022-3115
ScopeNuclear Energy and Engineering
General Materials Science
Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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