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

Schlütter, J., 2011. Therapeutics: new drugs hit the target. Nature 474, S5-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gillett, N.P., Thompson, D.W.J., 2003. Simulation of recent southern hemisphere climate change. Science 302, 273–275.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghoshal, G., Chi, L., Barabási, A.-L., 2013. Uncovering the role of elementary processes in network evolution. Sci. Rep. 3, 2920.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kitajima, T.S., Yokobayashi, S., Yamamoto, M., Watanabe, Y., 2003. Distinct cohesin complexes organize meiotic chromosome domains. Science 300, 1152–1155.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yavaş, M., 2011. Applied English Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Ryberg, T., Sinclair, C., Bayne, S., de Laat, M. (Eds.), 2016. Research, Boundaries, and Policy in Networked Learning, Research in Networked Learning. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Wickström, B.-A., 2007. Fairness, Rights, and Language Rights: On the Fair Treatment of Linguistic Minorities, in: Baake, P., Borck, R. (Eds.), Public Economics and Public Choice: Contributions in Honor of Charles B. Blankart. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 81–101.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Bats Navigate in 3D Using a Donut-Shaped Compass in Their Brain [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1988. Annual Index: Reports Issued in FY 1988 (No. 137743). 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

Lawrence, B.H., 2015. Evaluation of a cultural practice and 2,4-D-based herbicide programs for glyphosateresistant Palmer amaranth management (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Baker, L., 2007. The Zoning Policy That Worked Too Well. New York Times C10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schlütter, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gillett and Thompson, 2003; Schlütter, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Gillett and Thompson, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Kitajima et al., 2003)

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