How to format your references using the Applied Nanoscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Nanoscience. 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

Tegmark M (2002) Measuring spacetime: from the big bang to black holes. Science 296:1427–1433

A journal article with 2 authors

Sahin E, Depinho RA (2010) Linking functional decline of telomeres, mitochondria and stem cells during ageing. Nature 464:520–528

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee JY, Engelman JA, Cantley LC (2007) Biochemistry. PI3K charges ahead. Science 317:206–207

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nakatsuji S, Nambu Y, Tonomura H, et al (2005) Spin disorder on a triangular lattice. Science 309:1697–1700

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodriguez J, Bonne D (2015) Stereoselective Multiple Bond-Forming Transformations in Organic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Berthoz A, Christen Y (eds) (2009) Neurobiology of “Umwelt”: How Living Beings Perceive the World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Aucher G (2008) Consistency Preservation and Crazy Formulas in BMS. In: Hölldobler S, Lutz C, Wansing H (eds) Logics in Artificial Intelligence: 11th European Conference, JELIA 2008, Dresden, Germany, September 28-October 1, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 21–33

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 Applied Nanoscience.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Sun’s Coronal Loops Recreated In The Lab. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/suns-coronal-loops-recreated-in-the-lab/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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

Government Accountability Office (1993) Astronaut Utilization. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coppock JE (2017) Optical and Magnetic Measurements of a Levitated, Gyroscopically Stabilized Graphene Nanoplatelet. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Goldstein J (2014) Police Study Use of Force; May Issue More Tasers. New York Times A18

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Tegmark 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Tegmark 2002; Sahin and Depinho 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Sahin and Depinho 2010)
Three or more authors: (Nakatsuji et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Nanoscience
Abbreviation	Appl. Nanosci.
ISSN (print)	2190-5509
ISSN (online)	2190-5517
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