How to format your references using the Nuclear Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
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J. E. HOFFMAN, “Physics. Sign flips and spin fluctuations in iron high-Tc superconductors,” Science 328 5977, 441 (2010).
A journal article with 2 authors
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T. MITCHELL-OLDS and C. A. KNIGHT, “Evolution. Chaperones as buffering agents?,” Science 296 5577, 2348 (2002).
A journal article with 3 authors
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G. E. D. OLDROYD, M. J. HARRISON, and U. PASZKOWSKI, “Reprogramming plant cells for endosymbiosis,” Science 324 5928, 753 (2009).
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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S. LONG et al., “Voltage and power-controlled regimes in the progressive unipolar RESET transition of HfO₂-based RRAM,” Sci. Rep. 3, 2929 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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A. D. CHIASSON, Geothermal Heat Pump and Heat Engine Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2016).
An edited book
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J. GARCIA-ALFARO et al., Eds., Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneus Security: 6th International Workshop, DPM 2011, and 4th International Workshop, SETOP 2011, Leuven, Belgium, September 15-16, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012).
A chapter in an edited book
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Y. A. PARK, U. KARADKAR, and R. FURUTA, “Component-Based Authoring of Complex, Petri net-based Digital Library Infrastructure,” in Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010, Glasgow, UK, September 6-10, 2010. Proceedings, M. Lalmas et al., Eds., pp. 22–29, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010).

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 Science and Engineering.

Blog post
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K. HAMILTON, “Small Tropical Islands Could Become The World’s First 100% Renewable Nations,” IFLScience; 21 June 2016; https://www.iflscience.com/environment/small-tropical-islands-could-become-the-worlds-first-100--renewable-nations/; (current as of Oct. 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
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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE, “Triad Hearing Follow-up,” PEMD-93-28R, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1993).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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K. P. SPRALJA, “The intersections of culture and business: An ethnographic study of multicultural second generation young entrepreneurs,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach (2014).

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. HODGMAN, “Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman,” in New York Times, p. MM20 (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 titleNuclear Science and Engineering
AbbreviationNucl. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)0029-5639
ISSN (online)1943-748X
ScopeNuclear Energy and Engineering

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