How to format your references using the International Journal of Nuclear Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Nuclear Security. 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

N. J. Rothwell, Show them how it’s really done. Nature. 405, 621 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

H. Kokko, A. López-Sepulcre, From individual dispersal to species ranges: perspectives for a changing world. Science. 313, 789–791 (2006).

A journal article with 3 authors

C. H. Greene, B. C. Monger, L. P. McGarry, Ecology. Some like it cold. Science. 324, 733–734 (2009).

A journal article with 10 or more authors

C. Vecchi, G. Montosi, K. Zhang, I. Lamberti, S. A. Duncan, R. J. Kaufman, A. Pietrangelo, ER stress controls iron metabolism through induction of hepcidin. Science. 325, 877–880 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

B. Taylor, Effective Environmental, Health, and Safety Management Using the Team Approach (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005).

An edited book

U. Zannier, Ed., Colloquium De Giorgi 2013 and 2014 (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2015), vol. 5 of Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore.

A chapter in an edited book

M. Xu, C. Huang, S. Zheng, J. Shi, in Computer Networks & Communications (NetCom): Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Networks & Communications, N. Chaki, N. Meghanathan, D. Nagamalai, Eds. (Springer, New York, NY, 2013), Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, pp. 47–54.

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 Nuclear Security.

Blog post

A. Carpineti, Pulsating White Dwarf Whips Its Companion Star With Beam Of Particles. IFLScience (2016), (available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/pulsating-white-dwarf-whips-its-companion-star-with-beam-of-particles/).

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, “Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Modernization Program” (RCED-99-25, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

S. Roberts, thesis, George Washington University, Washington, DC (2019).

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. F. Burghardt, With Emphasis on Safety, Playgrounds Aren’t for All. New York Times (2005), p. 14LI1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Nuclear Security
Abbreviation	Int. J. Nucl. Secur.
ISSN (print)	2376-9955
Scope