How to format your references using the Nuclear Engineering and Design citation style

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

Smaglik, P., 2001. Asthma study death spurs inquiry. Nature 411, 873.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mori, M., Umemura, M., 2006. The evolution of galaxies from primeval irregulars to present-day ellipticals. Nature 440, 644–647.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rapp, R.P., Shimizu, N., Norman, M.D., 2003. Growth of early continental crust by partial melting of eclogite. Nature 425, 605–609.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Takaoka, Y., Goto, S., Nakano, T., Tseng, H.-P., Yang, S.-M., Kawamoto, S., Ono, K., Chen, C.-L., 2014. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) prevents lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced, sepsis-related severe acute lung injury in mice. Sci. Rep. 4, 5204.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johansen, G.A., Jackson, P., 2005. Radioisotope Gauges for Industrial Process Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Rosa, M.L., Soffer, P. (Eds.), 2013. Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2012 International Workshops, Tallinn, Estonia, September 3, 2012. Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Betzig, L., 2015. The French Connection: Sex and the English Revolution, in: Shackelford, T.K., Hansen, R.D. (Eds.), The Evolution of Sexuality, Evolutionary Psychology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 81–98.

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 Engineering and Design.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. Here’s What Life Will Be Like In 2022, According To IBM [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/heres-what-life-will-be-like-in-2022-according-to-ibm/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1984. Tax Information Safeguard Activity Annual Report (No. GGD-84-83). 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

Sylvain, O., 2010. Domesticating “the Great, Throbbing, Common Pulse of America”: A Study of the Ideological Origins of the Radio Act of 1927 (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Wogan, J., 2016. Accommodations; Equestrian Escape. New York Times ST3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Mori and Umemura, 2006; Smaglik, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Mori and Umemura, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Takaoka et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nuclear Engineering and Design
Abbreviation	Nucl. Eng. Des.
ISSN (print)	0029-5493
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Mechanical Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Waste Management and Disposal General Materials Science Nuclear and High Energy Physics