How to format your references using the Nuclear Fusion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nuclear Fusion. 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]

Binder P-M 2008 Mathematics. Frustration in complexity Science 320 322–3

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dranovsky A and Leonardo E D 2015 Neuroscience: The power of positivity Nature 522 294–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kaiser T E, Intine R V and Dundr M 2008 De novo formation of a subnuclear body Science 322 1713–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Zarka P, Lamy L, Cecconi B, Prangé R and Rucker H O 2007 Modulation of Saturn’s radio clock by solar wind speed Nature 450 265–7

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Zheng F and Kaiser T 2016 Digital Signal Processing for RFID (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Lichtfouse E 2015 Sustainable Agriculture Reviews: Volume 18 vol 18 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cheah L, Evans C, Bandivadekar A and Heywood J 2009 Factor of Two: Halving the Fuel Consumption of New U.S. Automobiles by 2035 Reducing Climate Impacts in the Transportation Sector ed J S Cannon and D Sperling (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 49–71

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 Fusion.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T 2016 Can You Spot What’s Hiding In This Photograph? IFLScience

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 2007 DOD is Making Progress in Adopting Best Practices for the Transformational Satellite Communications System and Space Radar but Still Faces Challenges (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Beahm A C 2009 The political ecology of tourism development in the Ecuadorian Amazon Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Branch J 2016 Playing a Beautiful Game New York Times B8

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 Fusion
Abbreviation	Nucl. Fusion
ISSN (print)	0029-5515
ISSN (online)	1741-4326
Scope	Condensed Matter Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics