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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nuclear Engineering 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

K.M. Liechti, Materials science. Understanding friction in layered materials, Science 348 (2015) 632–633.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.E. Trenberth, B.L. Otto-Bliesner, Paleoclimate. Toward integrated reconstruction of past climates, Science 300 (2003) 589–590.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Saitou, S.C. Barton, M.A. Surani, A molecular programme for the specification of germ cell fate in mice, Nature 418 (2002) 293–300.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.N. Dodd, N. Salathia, A. Hall, E. Kévei, R. Tóth, F. Nagy, J.M. Hibberd, A.J. Millar, A.A.R. Webb, Plant circadian clocks increase photosynthesis, growth, survival, and competitive advantage, Science 309 (2005) 630–633.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Samuels, The Trader’s Pendulum, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

M. Schmidt, E. João, E. Albrecht, eds., Implementing Strategic Environmental Assessment, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Yang, X. Liang, C. Pope, Z. Li, Physics: Low-Energy Brachytherapy Physics, in: P. Montemaggi, M. Trombetta, L.W. Brady (Eds.), Brachytherapy: An International Perspective, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 29–39.

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 Technology.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Charon Helps Pluto Keep Its Atmosphere, IFLScience (2017).

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, Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Year 1999 and 1998 Financial Statements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Gaines, Perceptions of knowledge sharing within hybrid learning environments: As iron sharpens iron among graduate students, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2017.

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]

B. Brantley, A Woman’s Fortune, and Her Ruin, New York Times (2017) C5.

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 Engineering and Technology
Abbreviation	Nucl. Eng. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1738-5733
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering