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]

Moore J E 2010 The birth of topological insulators Nature 464 194–8

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Alabugin I and Mohamed R K 2014 Chemistry. A CO₂ cloak for the cyanide dagger Science 344 45–6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Anderson G, Aagaard B and Hudnut K 2003 Fault interactions and large complex earthquakes in the Los Angeles area Science 302 1946–9

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Vigneron N, Stroobant V, Chapiro J, Ooms A, Degiovanni G, Morel S, van der Bruggen P, Boon T and Van den Eynde B J 2004 An antigenic peptide produced by peptide splicing in the proteasome Science 304 587–90

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

André É and Soulat R 2013 The Inverse Method (Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Wolf F, Mohr B and Mey D an 2013 Euro-Par 2013 Parallel Processing: 19th International Conference, Aachen, Germany, August 26-30, 2013. Proceedings vol 8097 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kok L J J, Poston K and Moore G 2011 Bombardier Aerospace FSW Demonstrator ICAF 2011 Structural Integrity: Influence of Efficiency and Green Imperatives: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue, Montreal, Canada, 1-3 June 2011 ed J Komorowski (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 73–81

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]

Andrews R 2016 Chimpanzees And Bonobos Had Two Major Flings In The Ancient Past 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 2003 Telecommunications: Uneven Implementation of Wireless Enhanced 911 Raises Prospect of Piecemeal Availability for Years to Come (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]

Seegmiller Renner A 2017 Empathy Development Through Role Modeling: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Experiences Doctoral dissertation (Minneapolis, MN: Capella University)

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]

Qiu L 2017 Bold Talk On Gangs And Sugar New York Times A19

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