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

(1)

McCabe, H. Post-Cold War Needs “New Forms of Scientific Linkage.” Nature 2000, 404 (6773), 8.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Laurie, B.; Doctorow, C. Computing: Secure the Internet. Nature 2012, 491 (7424), 325–326.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Poulsen, C. J.; Ehlers, T. A.; Insel, N. Onset of Convective Rainfall during Gradual Late Miocene Rise of the Central Andes. Science 2010, 328 (5977), 490–493.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Noda, T.; Sagara, H.; Yen, A.; Takada, A.; Kida, H.; Cheng, R. H.; Kawaoka, Y. Architecture of Ribonucleoprotein Complexes in Influenza A Virus Particles. Nature 2006, 439 (7075), 490–492.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Lundberg, U.; Cooper, C. L. The Science of Occupational Health; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

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Nicola, F. Global Pseudo-Differential Calculus on Euclidean Spaces; Rodino, L., Ed.; Pseudo-Differential Operators, Theory and Applications; Birkhäuser: Basel, 2010; Vol. 4.

A chapter in an edited book

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Majumder, M.; Barman, R. N. Application of a Genetic Algorithm to Predict the Growth Rate of Bufo Melanostictus in Urban Forest. In Application of Nature Based Algorithm in Natural Resource Management; Majumder, M., Barman, R. N., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013; pp 59–74.

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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Taub, B. Edible Silk Coating Stops Fruit And Veg Going Moldy. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/edible-silk-coating-stops-fruit-and-veg-going-mouldy/ (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. [Aging Issues in the 1980’s: A Computerized Information System]; 121285; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1983.

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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Little, J. L. The Effects of a Financial Literacy Intervention on Teachers’ Financial Literacy, Awareness, and Advocacy. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 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

(1)

Kelly, D. From Warhol to Rathole. New York Times. October 24, 1993, p 714.

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

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