How to format your references using the Nuclear Fusion citation style

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

Bohannon J 2009 The Gonzo Scientist. The Science Dance Match-Up Challenge Science 324 332

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Forget A L and Kowalczykowski S C 2012 Single-molecule imaging of DNA pairing by RecA reveals a three-dimensional homology search Nature 482 423–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cai L, Dalal C K and Elowitz M B 2008 Frequency-modulated nuclear localization bursts coordinate gene regulation Nature 455 485–90

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Bersten M C, Folatelli G, García F, Van Dyk S D, Benvenuto O G, Orellana M, Buso V, Sánchez J L, Tanaka M, Maeda K, Filippenko A V, Zheng W, Brink T G, Cenko S B, de Jaeger T, Kumar S, Moriya T J, Nomoto K, Perley D A, Shivvers I and Smith N 2018 A surge of light at the birth of a supernova Nature 554 497–9

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bliesner D M 2006 Establishing a CGMP Laboratory Audit System (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Ourselin S, Alexander D C, Westin C-F and Cardoso M J 2015 Information Processing in Medical Imaging: 24th International Conference, IPMI 2015, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Isle of Skye, UK, June 28 - July 3, 2015, Proceedings vol 9123 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Estermann I 2011 Applications of Molecular Beams to Problems in Rarefied Gas Dynamics Dinamica dei gas rarefatti ed C Ferrari (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 267–304

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 Fusion.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2015 May 13 Google Doodle Commemorates Seismologist Inge Lehmann IFLScience

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 1977 Alternative to Project Seafarer (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Richardson S 2014 Individual sense of efficacy, collective teacher efficacy and student achievement in high achieving and low achieving urban public schools Doctoral dissertation (Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University)

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]

(nyt) S K 2002 World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Another Catholic Priest Barred New York Times A6

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	Nuclear Fusion
Abbreviation	Nucl. Fusion
ISSN (print)	0029-5515
ISSN (online)	1741-4326
Scope	Condensed Matter Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics