How to format your references using the International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and 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 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]

P. Smaglik, Chemistry’s clouded view, Nature 421 (2003) 295.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.R. Trinkle, C. Woodward, The chemistry of deformation: how solutes soften pure metals, Science 310 (2005) 1665–1667.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.E. Childers, S. Ciufo, D.R. Lovley, Geobacter metallireducens accesses insoluble Fe(III) oxide by chemotaxis, Nature 416 (2002) 767–769.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. d’Adda di Fagagna, P.M. Reaper, L. Clay-Farrace, H. Fiegler, P. Carr, T. Von Zglinicki, G. Saretzki, N.P. Carter, S.P. Jackson, A DNA damage checkpoint response in telomere-initiated senescence, Nature 426 (2003) 194–198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Sun, Multiphase Flow in Oil and Gas Well Drilling, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

M. Fleer, A. Ridgway, eds., Visual Methodologies and Digital Tools for Researching with Young Children: Transforming Visuality, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Peterson, Civic Virtue and Global Responsibilities, in: M. Print, C. Tan (Eds.), Educating “Good” Citizens in a Globalising World for the Twenty-First Century, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2015: pp. 49–64.

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 International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Meet Alana, The Girl With Three Biological Parents, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/meet-girl-dna-three-parents/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, U.S. Economic Aid for the West Bank and Gaza, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.N. Garfield-Kabbara, Through the Portal of Shame: A Path Toward Self-Love for Fatherless Daughters Living in Patriarchy, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014.

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]

S. Chira, One Brew Does Not Fit All, New York Times (2015) D7.

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 [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and Technology
ISSN (print)	2468-6050
Scope