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:

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]

D. Butler, The fertility riddle, Nature. 432 (2004) 38–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Meskhidze, A. Nenes, Phytoplankton and cloudiness in the Southern Ocean, Science. 314 (2006) 1419–1423.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Zheng, X. Bu, P. Feng, Synthetic design of crystalline inorganic chalcogenides exhibiting fast-ion conductivity, Nature. 426 (2003) 428–432.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.L. Rabosky, J. Chang, P.O. Title, P.F. Cowman, L. Sallan, M. Friedman, K. Kaschner, C. Garilao, T.J. Near, M. Coll, M.E. Alfaro, An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes, Nature. 559 (2018) 392–395.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C.G. Thomas, Greece, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

M.S. Rao, ed., Neural Development and Stem Cells, Second Edition, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Geetika Vyas, Amita Sharma, Examining Usability of Classes in Collaboration with SPL Feature Model, in: S.C. Satapathy, Y.C. Bhatt, A. Joshi, D.K. Mishra (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress on Information and Communication Technology: ICICT 2015, Volume 1, Springer, Singapore, 2016: pp. 31–37.

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]

T. Hale, $2.5 Million Worth Of Rare Scientific Books Stolen In “Mission: Impossible-Style Heist,” IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/25-million-worth-of-rare-scientific-books-stolen-in-mission-impossiblestyle-heist/ (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, Federal Communications Commission: Strategic Focus Needed to Improve Information Resources Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

O. Zivkovic, Ternary nanomaterials: Synthesis by alkalide reduction and characterization, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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

[1]

J. Herrman, In Media Company Advertising, Sponsored Content Is Becoming King, New York Times. (2016) B1.

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 Nuclear Materials
Abbreviation	J. Nucl. Mater.
ISSN (print)	0022-3115
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering General Materials Science Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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