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]

J.B. Pendry, Physics. Negative refraction for electrons?, Science 315 (2007) 1226–1227.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.W. DeSimone, A.R. Horwitz, Cell Biology. Many modes of motility, Science 345 (2014) 1002–1003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.A.S. Batista, R.G. Larson, N.A. Kotov, Nonadditivity of nanoparticle interactions, Science 350 (2015) 1242477.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.-X. Zhu, X.-D. Wen, J.T. Haraldsen, M. He, C. Panagopoulos, E.E.M. Chia, Induced ferromagnetism at BiFeO3/YBa2Cu3O7 interfaces, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5368.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Häberlin, Photovoltaics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

U. Bundi, ed., Alpine Waters, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Radulov, P. Quinn, H. Hegt, A. van Roermund, Smart Self-Correcting D/A Converters, in: P. Quinn, H. Hegt, A.H.M. van Roermund (Eds.), Smart and Flexible Digital-to-Analog Converters, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011: pp. 43–55.

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]

S. Luntz, NASA Plans To Send People To Mars By 2035, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-plans-send-people-mars-2035/ (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, NASA’s Space Vision: Business Case for Prometheus 1 Needed to Ensure Requirements Match Available Resources, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.L. Powers, Real-time video streaming: Impact on maternal anxiety and the maternal-infant bond, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

A. Tommasini, C. da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM, J.R. Oestreich, D. Allen, Sex and Death: It Must Be Opera, New York Times (2017) AR50.

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