How to format your references using the Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Nuclear Science 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	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]

von Andrian UH. Immunology. T cell activation in six dimensions. Science. 2002;296(5574):1815–1817.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Trinkle-Mulcahy L, Lamond AI. Toward a high-resolution view of nuclear dynamics. Science. 2007;318(5855):1402–1407.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fukuda H, Murase H, Tokuda IT. Controlling circadian rhythms by dark-pulse perturbations in Arabidopsis thaliana. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1533.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Tzeng Y, Yeh S, Fang WC, et al. Nitrogen-incorporated ultrananocrystalline diamond and multi-layer-graphene-like hybrid carbon films. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4531.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Atkin N, Biddiss M, Tallett F. The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Privett G. The Constellation Observing Atlas. Jones K, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bruni R, De Nicola R, Loreti M, et al. Provably Correct Implementations of Services. In: Kaklamanis C, Nielson F, editors. Trustworthy Global Computing: 4th International Symposium, TGC 2008, Barcelona, Spain, November 3-4, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 69–86.

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 Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Amazing 2D Rubens’ Tube Visualizes Sound With a Plane of Fire [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/amazing-2d-rubens’-tube-visualizes-sound-plane-fire/.

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. Aviation Security: Progress Since September 11, 2001, and the Challenges Ahead. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003. Report No.: GAO-03-1150T. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Taylor WA. Every citizen a soldier: The U.S. Army’s campaign for universal military training following World War II [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: 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]

Pilon M. Table Tennis Beside a Bank, and Other Contests Intended to ‘Reclaim’ Midtown. New York Times. 2012 May 19;D6.

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 Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Nucl. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3131
ISSN (online)	1881-1248
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Nuclear and High Energy Physics