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 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

[1]

D.M. Braun, Plant science. SWEET! The pathway is complete, Science 335 (2012) 173–174.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Brei, D. Fish, Comment on “Parasites as a viability cost of sexual selection in natural populations of mammals,” Science 300 (2003) 55; author reply 55.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

X. Yang, T.K. Minton, D.H. Zhang, Chemistry. Rethinking chemical reactions at hyperthermal energies, Science 336 (2012) 1650–1651.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Lu, N. Yeung, N. Sieracki, N.M. Marshall, Design of functional metalloproteins, Nature 460 (2009) 855–862.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H.-X. Li, X. Lu, System Design and Control Integration for Advanced Manufacturing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

J.C. García-Prada, C. Castejón, eds., New Trends in Educational Activity in the Field of Mechanism and Machine Theory, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Zhang, Y. Pi, R. Min, A CGRT-CLEAN Method for Circular SAR Three Dimensional Imaging, in: Q. Liang, W. Wang, J. Mu, J. Liang, B. Zhang, Y. Pi, C. Zhao (Eds.), Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems: The 2012 Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems, Springer, New York, NY, 2012: pp. 41–52.

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]

T. Hale, Thanks To Cosmic Rays, We Finally Know What The Inside Of A Pyramid Looks Like, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/archeologists-used-cosmic-rays-get-these-images-pyramid-s-insides-0/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Railroad Safety: DOT Should Better Manage Its Hazardous Materials Inspection Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.K. Clark, Professional values: A study of education and experience in nursing students and nurses, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2009.

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]

M.W. Walsh, Puerto Rico Debt Bill Takes Step, New York Times (2016) B3.

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