How to format your references using the Fusion Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fusion Science and Technology (FST). 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 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

G. JONES, “Total internal reflection,” Nature 403 6771, 707 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

G. D. EGBERT and R. D. RAY, “Significant dissipation of tidal energy in the deep ocean inferred from satellite altimeter data,” Nature 405 6788, 775 (2000).

A journal article with 3 authors

C. H. JOHNSON, M. EGLI, and P. L. STEWART, “Structural insights into a circadian oscillator,” Science 322 5902, 697 (2008).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

J. M. JOHNSON et al., “Genome-wide survey of human alternative pre-mRNA splicing with exon junction microarrays,” Science 302 5653, 2141 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

S. R. SEARLE, Linear Models, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (1997).

An edited book

B. B. PURKAYASTHA, A Digital Phase Locked Loop based Signal and Symbol Recovery System for Wireless Channel, K. K. Sarma, Ed., Springer India, New Delhi (2015).

A chapter in an edited book

A. H. ELGAZZAR and M. ELMONAYERI, “Inflammation,” in The Pathophysiologic Basis of Nuclear Medicine, A. H. Elgazzar, Ed., pp. 67–89, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006).

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 Fusion Science and Technology.

Blog post

A. CARPINETI, “The Interactions Between Antiprotons Have Been Measured For The First Time,” IFLScience; 4 November 2015; (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, “Airport and Airway Trust Fund: Effects of the Trust Fund Taxes’ Lapsing on FAA’s Budget,” RCED-96-130, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1996).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

S. H. PRADHAN, “User Interface Design, Database Connectivity, and Security in Fortified Cards,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach (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

L. SASLOW, “Lawmakers Pass Bill On Affordable Housing,” in New York Times, p. LI2 (2007).

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	Fusion Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Fusion Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1536-1055
ISSN (online)	1943-7641
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering General Materials Science Nuclear and High Energy Physics