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

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

S. Goodman, Geneticist takes top job at museum, Nature 415 (2002) 351.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.A. Godley, A. Mondragón, Molecular biology. Preference by exclusion, Science 331 (2011) 1017–1018.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Bao, H.-J. Lee, J.J. Zheng, Genome-wide network analysis of Wnt signaling in three pediatric cancers, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2969.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.W. Landsea, B.A. Harper, K. Hoarau, J.A. Knaff, Climate change. Can we detect trends in extreme tropical cyclones?, Science 313 (2006) 452–454.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

U. Troppens, R. Erkens, W. Müller, Storage Networks Explained, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

J. Bičák, T. Ledvinka, eds., General Relativity, Cosmology and Astrophysics: Perspectives 100 years after Einstein’s stay in Prague, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Müller, F.A. Quintana, A. Jara, T. Hanson, Regression, in: F.A. Quintana, A. Jara, T. Hanson (Eds.), Bayesian Nonparametric Data Analysis, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 51–75.

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 Materials and Energy.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, This Incredible 50-Million-Year-Old Amber Shows The Moment An Insect Literally Jumped Out Of Its Skin, IFLScience (2016).

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, Aviation Security: Progress Made, but Challenges Persist in Meeting the Screening Mandate for Air Cargo, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Moore, Seasonal Temperature Reconstruction for Northeastern Siberia during the Late Pleistocene from High-Resolution Oxygen Isotope Measurements Across Fossil Wood, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

A. Southall, J.C. McKINLEY Jr, ‘I Only Wanted to Scare Them,’ New York Times (2017) 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	Nuclear Materials and Energy
Abbreviation	Nucl. Mater. Energy
ISSN (print)	2352-1791
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Materials Science (miscellaneous) Nuclear and High Energy Physics