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

D. R. PAUL, “Marerials science. Creating new types of carbon-based membranes,” Science 335 6067, 413 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

O. MISHIMA and Y. SUZUKI, “Propagation of the polyamorphic transition of ice and the liquid-liquid critical point,” Nature 419 6907, 599 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

S. M. KAISER, H. S. MALIK, and M. EMERMAN, “Restriction of an extinct retrovirus by the human TRIM5alpha antiviral protein,” Science 316 5832, 1756 (2007).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

K. TOMATSU et al., “An atomic seesaw switch formed by tilted asymmetric Sn-Ge dimers on a Ge (001) surface,” Science 315 5819, 1696 (2007).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

J. MCCONNELL, Index of Medical Imaging, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2011).

An edited book

R. YU, Development and Evaluation of High Resolution Climate System Models, 1st ed. 2016, T. Zhou et al., Eds., Springer, Singapore (2016).

A chapter in an edited book

G. IACONETTA et al., “Frontotemporal Approach,” in Cranial, Craniofacial and Skull Base Surgery, P. Cappabianca, G. Iaconetta, and L. Califano, Eds., pp. 39–59, Springer, Milano (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 Technology.

Blog post

S. LUNTZ, “Secrets of the Flying Snake Revealed,” IFLScience; 2 April 2014; https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/secrets-flying-snake-revealed/; (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, “Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Potential Duplication in Federal Teacher Quality and Employment and Training Programs,” GAO-11-509T, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2011).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

J. V. MAGNUS, “Female Police Officers: The Influence of a Masculine Culture,” Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University (2017).

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

G. G. GUSTINES, “Out of the Closet and Up, Up and Away,” in New York Times, p. ST1 (2010).

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