How to format your references using the BioNanoScience citation style

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

Reynolds, S. E. (2013). Ecology. Immunity and invasive success. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6134), 816–817.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, G., & David Lou, X. W. (2013). Controlled growth of NiCo₂O₄ nanorods and ultrathin nanosheets on carbon nanofibers for high-performance supercapacitors. Scientific reports, 3, 1470.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schuck, C., Pernice, W. H. P., & Tang, H. X. (2013). Waveguide integrated low noise NbTiN nanowire single-photon detectors with milli-Hz dark count rate. Scientific reports, 3, 1893.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Valentine, D. L., Kessler, J. D., Redmond, M. C., Mendes, S. D., Heintz, M. B., Farwell, C., … Villanueva, C. J. (2010). Propane respiration jump-starts microbial response to a deep oil spill. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6001), 208–211.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benatar, D. (2012). The Second Sexism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Woicik, J. (Ed.). (2016). Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES) (Vol. 59). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Messner, F. (2006). Towards a Sustainable Copper Industry? In A. von Gleich, R. U. Ayres, & S. Gößling-Reisemann (Eds.), Sustainable Metals Management: Securing our Future - Steps Towards a Closed Loop Economy (pp. 113–139). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 BioNanoScience.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, October 18). Ancient Cave Paintings Described As “Most Striking” Ever Found. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-cave-paintings-describes-most-striking-ever-found/

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. (2008). DOD Business Transformation: Air Force’s Current Approach Increases Risk That Asset Visibility Goals and Transformation Priorities Will Not Be Achieved (No. GAO-08-866). 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

Garcia, D. M. (2010). Cutting a thorn: The cleansing function of female genital cutting (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Williams, J. (2017, February 10). The Left Bank. New York Times, p. BR4.

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	BioNanoScience
Abbreviation	Bionanoscience
ISSN (print)	2191-1630
ISSN (online)	2191-1649
Scope	Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering

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