How to format your references using the ACS Applied Nano Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACS Applied Nano Materials. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

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Mervis, J. CALL TO ARMS: Diversity: Easier Said Than Done. Science 2000, 289 (5478), 378–379.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Tirlapur, U. K.; König, K. Targeted Transfection by Femtosecond Laser. Nature 2002, 418 (6895), 290–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Wheeler, Q.; Assis, L.; Rieppel, O. Phylogenetics: Heed the Father of Cladistics. Nature 2013, 496 (7445), 295–296.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Hartshorn, K.; Hovius, N.; Dade, W. B.; Slingerland, R. L. Climate-Driven Bedrock Incision in an Active Mountain Belt. Science 2002, 297 (5589), 2036–2038.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Stefanoiu, D.; Borne, P.; Popescu, D.; Filip, F. G.; El Kamel, A. Optimization in Engineering Sciences: Approximate and Metaheuristic Methods; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

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Secure IT Systems: 21st Nordic Conference, NordSec 2016, Oulu, Finland, November 2-4, 2016. Proceedings; Brumley, B. B., Röning, J., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 10014.

A chapter in an edited book

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Veltri, R. W.; Christudass, C. S. Nuclear Morphometry, Epigenetic Changes, and Clinical Relevance in Prostate Cancer. In Cancer Biology and the Nuclear Envelope: Recent Advances May Elucidate Past Paradoxes; Schirmer, E. C., de las Heras, J. I., Eds.; Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; Springer: New York, NY, 2014; pp 77–99.

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 ACS Applied Nano Materials.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. Authorities In France Contemplate Dynamiting A Dead Whale Over Fears It Could Explode. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/authorities-are-contemplating-dynamiting-dead-whale-france-over-fears-it-could/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Social Security Needs To Better Plan, Develop, and Implement Its Major ADP Systems Redesign Projects; HRD-81-47; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Boylan, S. A. An Exploratory Case Study: U. S. Army’s Leadership Development for Organizational Leaders. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 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)

Vecsey, G. Petke Departs, Certain He Gave All That He Could. New York Times. October 31, 2010, p SP9.

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	ACS Applied Nano Materials
Abbreviation	ACS Appl. Energy Mater.
ISSN (online)	2574-0962
Scope