How to format your references using the Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, B citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, B. 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]

Y. Tsushima, Weaker signals induce more precise temporal-integration, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4660.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Kristensen, T. Bjerkedal, Explaining the relation between birth order and intelligence, Science 316 (2007) 1717.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.L. Hu, B. Chan, J.W.M. Bush, The hydrodynamics of water strider locomotion, Nature 424 (2003) 663–666.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Xu, Y. Feng, H. Peng, D. Guo, T. Li, Obstructive sleep apnea and the risk of perinatal outcomes: a meta-analysis of cohort studies, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6982.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.H. Fullman, Increasing Alpha with Options, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

A. Kılıçman, H.M. Srivastava, M. Mursaleen, Z. Abdul Majid, eds., Recent Advances in Mathematical Sciences: Selected Papers from ICREM7 2015, Springer, Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H.K. Seitz, S. Mueller, Alcohol and Cancer: An Overview with Special Emphasis on the Role of Acetaldehyde and Cytochrome P450 2E1, in: V. Vasiliou, S. Zakhari, H.K. Seitz, J.B. Hoek (Eds.), Biological Basis of Alcohol-Induced Cancer, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 59–70.

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 Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, B.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Polar Bear Shatters Previous Dive Record While Stalking Seals, IFLScience (2015).

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, Query Concerning FY 1985 Authorization Levels for Department of Education Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Skinner, Enamel -dentine junction morphology of extant hominoid and fossil hominin lower molars, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2008.

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]

J. Wagner, Cubs Send Nationals to Their Latest Early Exit, New York Times (2017) B10.

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 Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, B
Abbreviation	Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. B
ISSN (print)	0168-583X
Scope	Instrumentation Nuclear and High Energy Physics