How to format your references using the Nuclear Engineering and Design citation style

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

Morgan, J.A., 2002. Ecology. Looking beneath the surface. Science 298, 1903–1904.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu, L., Chen, H., 2014. Logarithm conformal mapping brings the cloaking effect. Sci. Rep. 4, 6862.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jakobsen, L., Ratcliffe, J.M., Surlykke, A., 2013. Convergent acoustic field of view in echolocating bats. Nature 493, 93–96.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ma, W., Alonso-González, P., Li, S., Nikitin, A.Y., Yuan, J., Martín-Sánchez, J., Taboada-Gutiérrez, J., Amenabar, I., Li, P., Vélez, S., Tollan, C., Dai, Z., Zhang, Y., Sriram, S., Kalantar-Zadeh, K., Lee, S.-T., Hillenbrand, R., Bao, Q., 2018. In-plane anisotropic and ultra-low-loss polaritons in a natural van der Waals crystal. Nature 562, 557–562.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laycock, J., Meeran, K., 2012. Integrated Endocrinology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Mach-Król, M., Pełech-Pilichowski, T. (Eds.), 2014. Advances in Business ICT, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Hannah, K.J., Ball, M.J., Edwards, M.J.A., 2006. Telecommunications and Informatics, in: Ball, M.J., Edwards, M.J.A. (Eds.), Introduction to Nursing Informatics, Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 41–54.

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 Nuclear Engineering and Design.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Weak Supernova Leaves Behind a Zombie Star [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/weak-supernova-leaves-behind-zombie-star/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2002. Aviation Finance: Distribution of Airport Grant Funds Complied with Statutory Requirements (No. GAO-02-283). 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

Aslanyan, A.L., 2014. Psycho-educational group for family members of adults with a mental health diagnosis: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Crow, K., 2001. Columbia Roils Neighbors Again, Now Over an Elementary School. New York Times 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morgan, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Morgan, 2002; Xu and Chen, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Xu and Chen, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ma et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nuclear Engineering and Design
Abbreviation	Nucl. Eng. Des.
ISSN (print)	0029-5493
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Mechanical Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Waste Management and Disposal General Materials Science Nuclear and High Energy Physics