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]

Jasanoff S 2011 Genome-sequencing anniversary. A living constitution Science 331 872

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Johansson M E V and Hansson G C 2011 Microbiology. Keeping bacteria at a distance Science 334 182–3

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Vohs K D, Mead N L and Goode M R 2006 The psychological consequences of money Science 314 1154–6

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Ke A, Zhou K, Ding F, Cate J H D and Doudna J A 2004 A conformational switch controls hepatitis delta virus ribozyme catalysis Nature 429 201–5

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Marcus Y 2012 Supercritical Water (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Hayat M A 2013 Pediatric Cancer, Volume 4: Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis vol 4 (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rawski M, Tomaszewicz P, Borowik G and Łuba T 2011 5 Logic Synthesis Method of Digital Circuits Designed for Implementation with Embedded Memory Blocks of FPGAs Design of Digital Systems and Devices Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ed M Adamski, A Barkalov and M Węgrzyn (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 121–44

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]

Taub B 2016 How The Brain Protects Itself Against Cocaine 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

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Government Accountability Office 1999 Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Federal Reserve Has Established Effective Year 2000 Management Controls for Internal Systems Conversion (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

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Clark K N 2012 Institutions and Self-Governing Social Systems: Linking Reflexivity and Institutional Theories for Cybersecurity and Other Commons Governance Policies Doctoral dissertation (Washington, DC: George Washington 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]

Kelly M 1992 THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; CLINTON IS LEERY OF PREMATURE JOY New York Times A1

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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