How to format your references using the Nuclear Energy and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nuclear Energy 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	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

Izaurralde E (2015) GENE REGULATION. Breakers and blockers—miRNAs at work. Science (New York, N.Y.) 349: 380–382.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cook-Deegan RM, McCormack SJ (2001) Intellectual property. Patents, secrecy, and DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293: 217.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlebois RL, Beiko RG, Ragan MA (2003) Microbial phylogenomics: Branching out. Nature 421: 217.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tomita J, Nakajima M, Kondo T, Iwasaki H (2005) No transcription-translation feedback in circadian rhythm of KaiC phosphorylation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 307: 251–254.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morvillo N (2010) Science and Religion. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Crescenzi R, Percoco M (Eds) (2013) Geography, Institutions and Regional Economic Performance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, VIII, 436 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Vulpetti G, Johnson L, Matloff GL (2015) Non-Rocket In-Space Propulsion. In: Johnson L, Matloff GL (Eds), Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel. Springer, New York, NY, 35–44.

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 Energy and Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) A Teacher Uses Star Trek For Difficult Conversations On Race And Gender. IFLScience.

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

Government Accountability Office (1978) U.S. Statistics on International Technology Transfer: Need for Additional Measures. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gonzalez HM (2017) DiaBeaThis Healthcare Clinic Business Plan. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach

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

Haskell DG (2013) Nature’s Case for Same-Sex Marriage. New York Times: A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Izaurralde 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cook-Deegan and McCormack 2001, Izaurralde 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Cook-Deegan and McCormack 2001)
Three or more authors: (Tomita et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nuclear Energy and Technology
Abbreviation	Nucl. Energy Technol.
ISSN (online)	2452-3038
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