How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 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

[1]

M. Eisenstein, “Genetics: finding risk factors,” Nature, vol. 475, no. 7355, pp. S20-2, Jul. 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.-L. Brédas and R. Silbey, “Chemistry. Excitons surf along conjugated polymer chains,” Science, vol. 323, no. 5912, pp. 348–349, Jan. 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.-M. Liu, W. Chen, and J. Wang, “Distinguishing between cancer cell differentiation and resistance induced by all-trans retinoic acid using transcriptional profiles and functional pathway analysis,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5577, Jul. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y.-Q. Guan, Z. Zheng, Z. Huang, Z. Li, S. Niu, and J.-M. Liu, “Powerful inner/outer controlled multi-target magnetic nanoparticle drug carrier prepared by liquid photo-immobilization,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4990, May 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. G. Faticoni, The Mathematics of Infinity. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

An edited book

[1]

J. C. Verster, S. R. Pandi-Perumal, J. G. Ramaekers, and J. J. de Gier, Eds., Drugs, Driving and Traffic Safety. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Post, J. Hoenicke, and A. Podelski, “rt-Inconsistency: A New Property for Real-Time Requirements,” in Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 14th International Conference, FASE 2011, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 26–April 3, 2011. Proceedings, D. Giannakopoulou and F. Orejas, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 34–49.

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 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Our Oceans Give New Insights On Elements Made In Supernovae,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/our-oceans-give-new-insights-elements-made-supernovae/

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Customs Service Modernization: Third Expenditure Plan Meets Legislative Conditions, but Cost Estimating Improvements Needed,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-02-908, Aug. 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. K. Matthews, “The impact of trait displaced aggression and social support on cardiovascular reactivity,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2016.

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

[1]

B. Detrick, “Et Al,” New York Times, p. D6, May 31, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1], [2].
This sentence cites four references [1], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0018-9499
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nuclear and High Energy Physics