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.

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

J. VAN DER GREEF, “Perspective: All systems go,” Nature 480 7378, S87 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

T. J. WILSON and D. M. J. LILLEY, “Biochemistry. The evolution of ribozyme chemistry,” Science 323 5920, 1436 (2009).

A journal article with 3 authors

Y.-Y. LIU, J.-J. SLOTINE, and A.-L. BARABÁSI, “Controllability of complex networks,” Nature 473 7346, 167 (2011).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

A. P. TSAI et al., “A stable binary quasicrystal,” Nature 408 6812, 537 (2000).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

CENTER FOR CHEMICAL PROCESS SAFETY, Guidelines for Safe Warehousing of Chemicals, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (1998).

An edited book

P. THILENIUS, C. PAHLBERG, and V. HAVILA, Eds., Extending the Business Network Approach: New Territories, New Technologies, New Terms, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London (2016).

A chapter in an edited book

T. R. GLARE, “Use of Pathogens for Eradication of Exotic Lepidopteran Pests in New Zealand,” in Use of Microbes for Control and Eradication of Invasive Arthropods, A. E. Hajek, T. R. Glare, and M. O’Callaghan, Eds., pp. 49–69, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2009).

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

D. ANDREW, “Could Your Kettle Bring Down The Internet?,” IFLScience; 25 October 2016; https://www.iflscience.com/technology/could-your-kettle-bring-down-the-internet/; (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

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE, “School Meals: USDA Could Improve Verification Process for Program Access,” GAO-15-634T, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2015).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

R. M. AMIN, “Detecting targeted malicious email through supervised classification of persistent threat and recipient oriented features,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University (2010).

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

J. WILLIAMS, “A Change Means a Challenge,” in New York Times, p. C1 (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 title	Nuclear Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	Nucl. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0029-5639
ISSN (online)	1943-748X
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering