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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE). 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

P. CORKUM, “Laser physics. Attosecond pulses at last,” Nature 403 6772, 845 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

C. R. HERLIHY and C. G. ECKERT, “Genetic cost of reproductive assurance in a self-fertilizing plant,” Nature 416 6878, 320 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

P. BUSSHARDT, D. KUNZE, and S. N. GORB, “Interlocking-based attachment during locomotion in the beetle Pachnoda marginata (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae),” Sci. Rep. 4, 6998 (2014).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Y. LANGEVIN et al., “Sulfates in the north polar region of Mars detected by OMEGA/Mars Express,” Science 307 5715, 1584 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

B. R. HOPKINS, The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2015).

An edited book

A. KALIS, A. G. KANATAS, and C. B. PAPADIAS, Eds., Parasitic Antenna Arrays for Wireless MIMO Systems, Springer, New York, NY (2014).

A chapter in an edited book

G. TRAJCEVSKI and P. SCHEUERMANN, “Adaptive and Context-Aware Reconciliation of Reactive and Pro-active Behavior in Evolving Systems,” in Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning: Next Generation Learning-Base System Development, P. P. Chen and L. Y. Wong, Eds., pp. 30–46, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007).

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 Science and Engineering.

Blog post

R. ANDREWS, “Why Do Women Have Orgasms?,” IFLScience; 1 August 2016; https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-women-have-orgasms/; (current as of Oct. 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, “Taxpayer Information: Options Exist to Enable Data Sharing Between IRS and USCIS but Each Presents Challenges,” GAO-06-100, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2005).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

B. BARGER, “A Quantitative Study of Educational Poverty, School Location, and Student Achievement Measured by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA),” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University (2014).

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

G. VECSEY, “Islanders Leaving, the Glory Long Gone,” in New York Times, p. B11 (2012).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	Nucl. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0029-5639
ISSN (online)	1943-748X
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering