How to format your references using the Annals of Nuclear Energy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Nuclear Energy. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Winklhofer, M., 2012. Physiology. An avian magnetometer. Science 336, 991–992.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stephanopoulos, G., Kelleher, J., 2001. Biochemistry. How to make a superior cell. Science 292, 2024–2025.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barbot, S., Lapusta, N., Avouac, J.-P., 2012. Under the hood of the earthquake machine: toward predictive modeling of the seismic cycle. Science 336, 707–710.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kapranov, P., Ozsolak, F., Kim, S.W., Foissac, S., Lipson, D., Hart, C., Roels, S., Borel, C., Antonarakis, S.E., Monaghan, A.P., John, B., Milos, P.M., 2010. New class of gene-termini-associated human RNAs suggests a novel RNA copying mechanism. Nature 466, 642–646.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller, M.A., 2005. Internet Technologies Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Marrón, P.J., 2012. The Emerging Domain of Cooperating Objects: Definitions and Concepts, SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Taylor, I.J., Harrison, A.B., 2009. The Web, in: Taylor, I.J., Harrison, A.B. (Eds.), From P2P and Grids to Services on the Web: Evolving Distributed Communities, Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London, pp. 81–106.

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 Annals of Nuclear Energy.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Brazilian Stingless Bees Farm Fungus To Feed Their Offspring [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brazilian-stingless-bees-are-fungus-farmers/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2005. Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Technical Problems, Cost Increases, and Schedule Delays Trigger Need for Difficult Trade-off Decisions (No. GAO-06-249T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Li, S., 2009. Semiconductor and metal oxide nanoparticles: Synthesis, physical properties and industrial application (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Carlson, L., 2010. Come Committed or Stay on the Couch. New York Times MB3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Winklhofer, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Stephanopoulos and Kelleher, 2001; Winklhofer, 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Stephanopoulos and Kelleher, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kapranov et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Nuclear Energy
Abbreviation	Ann. Nucl. Energy
ISSN (print)	0306-4549
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering