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. SHUKLA, “Atmosphere. Monsoon mysteries,” Science 318 5848, 204 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

C. BADCOCK and B. CRESPI, “Battle of the sexes may set the brain,” Nature 454 7208, 1054 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

F. KOROBOVA, V. RAMABHADRAN, and H. N. HIGGS, “An actin-dependent step in mitochondrial fission mediated by the ER-associated formin INF2,” Science 339 6118, 464 (2013).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Z. YIN et al., “Monodispersed bimetallic PdAg nanoparticles with twinned structures: formation and enhancement for the methanol oxidation,” Sci. Rep. 4, 4288 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

K. HUNT-AHMED, Contemporary Islamic Finance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013).

An edited book

M. BASSAN, Ed., Advanced Interferometers and the Search for Gravitational Waves: Lectures from the First VESF School on Advanced Detectors for Gravitational Waves, Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014).

A chapter in an edited book

C. H. MATTHEWS, M. T. SCHENKEL, and D. M. HECHAVARRIA, “Family Background and Influence on Nascent Entrepreneurs,” in New Firm Creation in the United States: Initial Explorations with the PSED II Data Set, R. T. Curtin and P. D. Reynolds, Eds., pp. 51–67, Springer, New York, NY (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 Technology.

Blog post

T. HALE, “National Geographic’s Nature Photographer Of The Year Winners Are As Awesome As Ever,” IFLScience; 9 December 2016; (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, “Multiyear Authorizations for Research and Development,” PAD-81-61, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1981).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

C. BLEVISS, “Constructing competence: Normalization and self-determination for people with developmental disabilities,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach (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

J. MARKOFF, “Trump Won Battle of Ranting, Raving Twitter Robots, Researchers Say,” in New York Times, p. A22 (2016).

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