How to format your references using the Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings. 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

[1]

A. Abbott, Hopes of biotech interest spur Latvian population genetics, Nature 412 (2001) 468.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.G. Nisbet, N.H. Sleep, The habitat and nature of early life, Nature 409 (2001) 1083–1091.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Medzhitov, D.S. Schneider, M.P. Soares, Disease tolerance as a defense strategy, Science 335 (2012) 936–941.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Wang, H. Xin, X. Li, J. Cheng, G. Yang, F. Nie, Mesoporous CNT@TiO2-C nanocable with extremely durable high rate capability for lithium-ion battery anodes, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3729.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y. Shi, M. Liu, F. Fang, Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

J.H. Kan, Pediatric and Adolescent Musculoskeletal MRI: A Case-Based Approach, Springer, New York, NY, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.M. Kashmiri, K.A.A. Makinwa, A Digitally-Assisted Electrothermal Frequency-Locked Loop in Standard CMOS, in: K.A.A. Makinwa (Ed.), Electrothermal Frequency References in Standard CMOS, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 87–127.

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 Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Motorcyclists Appear To Come Across A “Tribesman” In Indonesian Forest, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/motorcyclists-appear-to-come-across-a-tribesman-in-indonesian-forest/ (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, Telecommunications: Agencies Need Better Controls to Achieve Significant Savings on Mobile Devices and Services, 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]

A. Bakhoda, Synthesis and Electrochemistry of Ru(II) Vinylidenes, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 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]

J. Hodgman, Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, New York Times (2017) MM28.

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	Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Abbreviation	Nucl. Part. Phys. Proc.
ISSN (print)	2405-6014
Scope	Nuclear and High Energy Physics