How to format your references using the NIST Technical Publications - Journal of Research of NIST citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for NIST Technical Publications - Journal of Research of NIST. 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]

Keimer B (2001) Physics. Quasi-particles survive--for now. Science (New York, NY) 292(5521):1498–1499.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Santner A, Estelle M (2009) Recent advances and emerging trends in plant hormone signalling. Nature 459(7250):1071–1078.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lappala A, Zaccone A, Terentjev EM (2013) Ratcheted diffusion transport through crowded nanochannels. Scientific reports 3:3103.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

[1]

Steinmetz PN, Roy A, Fitzgerald PJ, Hsiao SS, Johnson KO, Niebur E (2000) Attention modulates synchronized neuronal firing in primate somatosensory cortex. Nature 404(6774):187–190.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dormieux L, Kondo D (2016) Micromechanics of Fracture and Damage (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

[1]

Maziero CA, Gabriel Silva J, Andrade AMS, Assis Silva FM de eds. (2005) Dependable Computing: Second Latin-American Symposium, LADC 2005, Salvador, Brazil, October 25-28, 2005. Proceedings (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), Vol. 3747.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jakovác A, Patkós A (2016) The Large-N Expansion. Resummation and Renormalization in Effective Theories of Particle Physics, Lecture Notes in Physics., ed Patkós A (Springer International Publishing, Cham), pp 97–138.

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 NIST Technical Publications - Journal of Research of NIST.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A (2016) Understanding The Environmental Impact of Solar Parks. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/understanding-the-environmental-impact-of-solar-parks/

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 (2011) Department of Energy: Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program Implementation Is Under Way, but Enhanced Technical Oversight and Performance Measures Are Needed. (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC), GAO-11-145.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yalof B (2012) Marshaling Resources: A Classic Grounded Theory Study of Online Learners. Doctoral dissertation (Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ).

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]

Chapman MM (2017) Online Upstarts Seek to Shake Up Used-Car Buying. New York Times:B6.

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	NIST Technical Publications - Journal of Research of NIST
ISSN (print)	1044-677X
ISSN (online)	2165-7254
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