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]

Montmerle T 2001 Astronomy. A stellar merry-go-round Science 293 2409–10

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Buckley Y M and Han Y 2014 Ecology. Managing the side effects of invasion control Science 344 975–6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Loughlin P C, Willows R D and Chen M 2014 In vitro conversion of vinyl to formyl groups in naturally occurring chlorophylls Sci. Rep. 4 6069

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Mühlig S, Cunningham A, Dintinger J, Farhat M, Hasan S B, Scharf T, Bürgi T, Lederer F and Rockstuhl C 2013 A self-assembled three-dimensional cloak in the visible Sci. Rep. 3 2328

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Das J C 2017 Understanding Symmetrical Components for Power System Modeling (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Chib A, May J and Barrantes R 2015 Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South (Singapore: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Collantes-Celador G 2016 The Defence of an Institution Under Challenge: The EU and the International Criminal Court EU Policy Responses to a Shifting Multilateral System ed E Barbé, O Costa and R Kissack (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK) pp 71–91

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]

Carpineti A 2016 Meteorites Reveal How Old Jupiter Really Is 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 2002 Human Services: Federal Approval and Funding Processes for States’ Information Systems (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]

Vundavilli R 2014 Bubble Removal in Microfluidic Devices Using Nanofibrous Membranes Doctoral dissertation (Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University)

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 2011 Obama Is President, but Football Is King New York Times B15

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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