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]

D. Cyranoski, Ecologists score victory over controversial dyke project, Nature 410 (2001) 619.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.K. Cho, D.A. Relman, Genetic technologies. Synthetic “life,” ethics, national security, and public discourse, Science 329 (2010) 38–39.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L.H. Lee, H. Yang, G. Bigras, Current breast cancer proliferative markers correlate variably based on decoupled duration of cell cycle phases, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5122.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Koga, G.T. Gao, H. Tanaka, X.C. Zeng, Formation of ordered ice nanotubes inside carbon nanotubes, Nature 412 (2001) 802–805.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Dinet, Information Retrieval in Digital Environments, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

N.M. Adams, P.S. Freemont, eds., Advances in Nuclear Architecture, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Unbehauen, C. Stadler, S. Auer, Accessing Relational Data on the Web with SparqlMap, in: H. Takeda, Y. Qu, R. Mizoguchi, Y. Kitamura (Eds.), Semantic Technology: Second Joint International Conference, JIST 2012, Nara, Japan, December 2-4, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 65–80.

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]

E. Andrew, Five New Species Of Flying Monkey Described, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/five-new-species-flying-monkey-described/ (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, Enterprise Architecture: Leadership Remains Key to Establishing and Leveraging Architectures for Organizational Transformation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Holmstedt, Low voltage switched-current cell and its application, Doctoral dissertation, 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]

B. Detrick, Goldie’s, New York Times (2016) 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	Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Abbreviation	Nucl. Part. Phys. Proc.
ISSN (print)	2405-6014
Scope	Nuclear and High Energy Physics