How to format your references using the Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Nuclear Science 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	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]

Holmes EC. Virology. Helping the resistance. Science. 2010;328(5983):1243–1244.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Aharonov Y, Zubairy MS. Time and the quantum: erasing the past and impacting the future. Science. 2005;307(5711):875–879.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Haile-Selassie Y, Suwa G, White TD. Late Miocene teeth from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and early hominid dental evolution. Science. 2004;303(5663):1503–1505.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Ruckh TT, Mehta AA, Dubach JM, et al. Polymer-free optode nanosensors for dynamic, reversible, and ratiometric sodium imaging in the physiological range. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Urick VJ Jr, Mckinney JD, Williams KJ. FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROWAVE PHOTONICS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Adhikari A. Developing Multi-Database Mining Applications. Ramachandrarao P, Pedrycz W, editors. London: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Avin C, Borokhovich M, Haeupler B, et al. Self-adjusting Grid Networks to Minimize Expected Path Length. In: Moscibroda T, Rescigno AA, editors. Structural Information and Communication Complexity: 20th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2013, Ischia, Italy, July 1-3, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. p. 36–54.

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 Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Gamma-Ray Burst 130427A One Of The Brightest Ever Recorded [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/gamma-ray-burst-130427a-one-brightest-ever-recorded/.

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. Review of FAA’s Collegiate Training Initiative as Mandated in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012. Report No.: GAO-12-996R. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Luse KM. Invariants of knots, graphs, and Feynman diagrams [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2008.

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]

Leland J. The ‘Oldest Old’ Brave Another Year. New York Times. 2016 Dec 30;MB1.

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	Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Nucl. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3131
ISSN (online)	1881-1248
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Nuclear and High Energy Physics