How to format your references using the Nuclear Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nuclear Technology. 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. JAVANAINEN, “Physics. Bose-Einstein condensates interfere and survive,” Science 307 5717, 1883 (2005).

A journal article with 2 authors

M. P. GUTIERREZ and L. P. LEE, “Engineering. Multiscale design and integration of sustainable building functions,” Science 341 6143, 247 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

P. Ø. FALNES, R. F. JOHANSEN, and E. SEEBERG, “AlkB-mediated oxidative demethylation reverses DNA damage in Escherichia coli,” Nature 419 6903, 178 (2002).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

B. KARTAL et al., “Molecular mechanism of anaerobic ammonium oxidation,” Nature 479 7371, 127 (2011).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

P. DARBYSHIRE and D. HAMPTON, Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using MATLAB ®, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2014).

An edited book

P. L. P. RAU, Ed., Cross-Cultural Design. Methods, Practice, and Case Studies: 5th International Conference, CCD 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013).

A chapter in an edited book

A. UDOMSAKDIGOOL and V. KACHITVICHYANUKUL, “Multiple-Colony Ant Algorithm with Forward–Backward Scheduling Approach for Job-Shop Scheduling Problem,” in Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, A. H. S. Chan and S.-I. Ao, Eds., pp. 39–55, Springer US, Boston, MA (2008).

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 Technology.

Blog post

E. ANDREW, “Electric Aircraft – The Future Of Aviation Or Just Wishful Thinking?,” IFLScience; 21 August 2015; https://www.iflscience.com/technology/electric-aircraft-future-aviation-or-just-wishful-thinking/; (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, “Army Training: Expenditures for Troop Schools Have Not Been Justified,” NSIAD-93-172, 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

D. K. CLARK, “Professional values: A study of education and experience in nursing students and nurses,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University (2009).

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

D. KELLY, “Fear and Loathing in San Juan,” in New York Times, p. 710 (1998).

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 Technology
Abbreviation	Nucl. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0029-5450
ISSN (online)	1943-7471
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Condensed Matter Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics