How to format your references using the Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 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]

Covington W W 2000 Helping western forests heal Nature 408 135–6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rubin J D and Taatjes D J 2015 Molecular biology: Mediating transcription and RNA export Nature 526 199–200

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Croon M B, Hillier J K and Sclater J G 2011 Comment on “Mantle flow drives the subsidence of oceanic plates” Science 331 1011; author reply 1011

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Lee S J, Matsuura Y, Liu S M and Stewart M 2005 Structural basis for nuclear import complex dissociation by RanGTP Nature 435 693–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Yan W 2014 Crop Variety Trials (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Paias A, Ruthmair M and Voß S 2016 Computational Logistics: 7th International Conference, ICCL 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, September 7-9, 2016, Proceedings vol 9855 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

van Hee K M, Sidorova N and van der Werf J M 2013 Business Process Modeling Using Petri Nets Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency VII Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed K Jensen, W M P van der Aalst, G Balbo, M Koutny and K Wolf (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 116–61

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 Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S 2014 Unfeelability Cloak Prevents Sensing Object By Touch 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 1989 Hazardous Materials: Federal Training for First Responders to Highway and Railroad Incidents (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]

Ramirez C 2014 Perceived efficacy of the O*NET Skills Search Tool among individuals with high functioning autism Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Crow K 2002 Is There a Little Bistro Inside All That Construction? New York Times 147

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	Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
ISSN (online)	2043-6262
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