How to format your references using the Nuclear Energy and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nuclear Energy 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

Haigwood NL (2015) HIV: tied down by its own receptor. Nature 519: 36–37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levine JM, HilleRisLambers J (2009) The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity. Nature 461: 254–257.

A journal article with 3 authors

Young KV, Brodie ED Jr, Brodie ED 3rd (2004) How the horned lizard got its horns. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304: 65.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

González MM, Dingus BL, Kaneko Y, Preece RD, Dermer CD, Briggs MS (2003) A gamma-ray burst with a high-energy spectral component inconsistent with the synchrotron shock model. Nature 424: 749–751.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rogers DW (2010) Concise Physical Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Illig KA, Thompson RW, Freischlag JA, Donahue DM, Jordan SE, Edgelow PI (Eds) (2013) Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. Springer, London, XXXIII, 705 p. 220 illus., 101 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Sturre L, Chiappe D, Vu K-PL, Strybel TZ (2015) Using Eye Movements to Test Assumptions of the Situation Present Assessment Method. In: Yamamoto S (Ed.), Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge in Context: 17th International Conference, HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 45–52.

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 Nuclear Energy and Technology.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Scientists Make Female Fish That Produce Working Sperm. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-make-female-fish-produce-working-sperm/ (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

Government Accountability Office (1977) Summary of a Report: The National School Lunch Program, Is It Working? U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Friedman DE (2017) Characterization of Organic Matter in Suspended Sediments Via Pyrolysis and Oxidation. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana

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

Stewart JB (2017) 2016’s Top Investors Offer Their Insights Into the Year Ahead. New York Times: B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Haigwood 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Levine and HilleRisLambers 2009, Haigwood 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Levine and HilleRisLambers 2009)
Three or more authors: (González et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nuclear Energy and Technology
Abbreviation	Nucl. Energy Technol.
ISSN (online)	2452-3038
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