How to format your references using the Nuclear Physics, Section B citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nuclear Physics, Section 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]

H. Brody, Beauty, Nature 526 (2015) S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F.A. Jenet, S.M. Ransom, The geometry of the double-pulsar system J0737-3039 from systematic intensity variations, Nature 428 (2004) 919–921.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Plata, C.S. Henry, D. Vitkup, Long-term phenotypic evolution of bacteria, Nature 517 (2015) 369–372.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Wang, H. Akiyama, K. Terakado, T. Nakatsu, Impact of site-directed mutant luciferase on quantitative green and orange/red emission intensities in firefly bioluminescence, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2490.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F. Glover, D. Klingman, N.V. Phillips, Network Models in Optimization and their Applications in Practice, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 1992.

An edited book

[1]

S. Casteleyn, P. Dolog, C. Pautasso, eds., Current Trends in Web Engineering: ICWE 2016 International Workshops, DUI, TELERISE, SoWeMine, and Liquid Web, Lugano, Switzerland, June 6-9, 2016. Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Takruri, K. Aboura, S. Challa, Distributed Recursive Algorithm for Auto Calibration in Drift Aware Wireless Sensor Networks, in: K. Elleithy (Ed.), Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2008: pp. 21–25.

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 Physics, Section B.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, How To Cook A Steak With Lava, IFLScience (2014).

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, Consolidated Education Planning: State Education Agencies’ Implementation of Consolidated Planning at the Local Level, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Andrews, Yoga as mental health treatment for cancer survivors: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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.D. Shear, Kelly Delivers Fervent Defense Of Call to Widow, New York Times (2017) A1.

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 Physics, Section B
Abbreviation	Nucl. Phys. B.
ISSN (print)	0550-3213
Scope	Nuclear and High Energy Physics