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

McNab, B.K., 2003. Metabolism: ecology shapes bird bioenergetics. Nature 426, 620–621.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ding, H.-M., Ma, Y.-Q., 2013. Controlling cellular uptake of nanoparticles with pH-sensitive polymers. Sci. Rep. 3, 2804.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wootton, S.K., Halbert, C.L., Miller, A.D., 2005. Sheep retrovirus structural protein induces lung tumours. Nature 434, 904–907.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, M., Montgomery, M.K., Fiveash, C.E., Osborne, B., Cooney, G.J., Bell-Anderson, K., Turner, N., 2014. PPARα-independent actions of omega-3 PUFAs contribute to their beneficial effects on adiposity and glucose homeostasis. Sci. Rep. 4, 5538.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, R.A., Carew, M.G., Maksimenko, T., 2010. Micro Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lewis, R., 2013. iPhone and iPad Apps for Absolute Beginners, Fourth Edition. ed. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Ingolfo, S., Siena, A., Mylopoulos, J., 2011. Establishing Regulatory Compliance for Software Requirements, in: Jeusfeld, M., Delcambre, L., Ling, T.-W. (Eds.), Conceptual Modeling – ER 2011: 30th International Conference, ER 2011, Brussels, Belgium, October 31 - November 3, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 47–61.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Twin Stars Hosting Two Jupiter-Sized Exoplanets Discovered [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, 2010. Aviation Safety: Improved Data Quality and Analysis Capabilities Are Needed as FAA Plans a Risk-Based Approach to Safety Oversight (No. GAO-10-414). 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

George, K.G., 2017. Revisiting “The Blue Line Blues”: Transit-Oriented Development in Inner-City Areas of Los Angeles County, 2000-2016 (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Yablonsky, L., 2009. Space Invader. New York Times M234.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McNab, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ding and Ma, 2013; McNab, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Ding and Ma, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Liu 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