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]

Fulweiler RW. Microbiology. Fantastic fixers. Science. 2009;326(5951):377–378.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wiseman BS, Werb Z. Stromal effects on mammary gland development and breast cancer. Science. 2002;296(5570):1046–1049.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Carazo-Salas RE, Antony C, Nurse P. The kinesin Klp2 mediates polarization of interphase microtubules in fission yeast. Science. 2005;309(5732):297–300.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

van der Wal CH, Eisaman MD, André A, et al. Atomic memory for correlated photon states. Science. 2003;301(5630):196–200.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sturges RH Jr. Practical Field Robotics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Kappler M, Sachs A, editors. Business Cycle Synchronisation and Economic Integration: New Evidence from the EU. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bettini L. Rapidly Implementing EMF Applications with EMF Components. In: Cordeiro J, Hammoudi S, Sinderen M van, editors. Software and Data Technologies: 7th International Conference, ICSOFT 2012, Rome, Italy, July 24-27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 52–65.

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]

Carpineti A. Iceland Is Drilling Four Kilometers Into A Volcano To Produce Clean Energy [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/iceland-to-use-thor-to-drill-clean-energy-from-a-volcano/.

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. Smartphone Data: Information and Issues Regarding Surreptitious Tracking Apps That Can Facilitate Stalking. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016. Report No.: GAO-16-317. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Dunbar S. Sideshow: An alluring dichotomy of illusion and humanity [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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]

Crow K. Frequent Fliers: Takeout Menus Can’t Compete With Politics. New York Times. 2001 Sep 9;144.

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