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]

S. Seitzinger, A sustainable planet needs scientists to think ahead, Nature 468 (2010) 601.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.L. Bonilla, A. Carpio, Materials science. Driving dislocations in graphene, Science 337 (2012) 161–162.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Maier, S. Jenni, N. Ban, Architecture of mammalian fatty acid synthase at 4.5 A resolution, Science 311 (2006) 1258–1262.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P.J. Roach, W.H. Woodward, A.W. Castleman Jr, A.C. Reber, S.N. Khanna, Complementary active sites cause size-selective reactivity of aluminum cluster anions with water, Science 323 (2009) 492–495.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P.J. Harrington, Pharmaceutical Process Chemistry for Synthesis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

P. Dasgupta, ed., Urologic Robotic Surgery in Clinical Practice, Springer, London, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Vasudevan, O. Tardieu, J. Dolby, S.A. Edwards, Compile-Time Analysis and Specialization of Clocks in Concurrent Programs, in: O. de Moor, M.I. Schwartzbach (Eds.), Compiler Construction: 18th International Conference, CC 2009, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2009, York, UK, March 22-29, 2009. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 48–62.

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, 200,000 More Children Have Been Vaccinated In Australia Following New Policies, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/200000-more-children-have-been-vaccinated-in-australia-following-new-policies/ (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, Telecommunications: Wire-Based Competition Benefited Consumers In Selected Markets, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.I. Razo, Parenting practices of Latina mothers and children’s behavior outcomes, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

S. Hodara, Making All the World Their Stage, New York Times (2015) WE9.

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