How to format your references using the Environmental Science: Nano citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Science: Nano. 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	Download the output style file
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

R. C. O’Reilly, Science, 2006, 314, 91–94.

A journal article with 2 authors

D. M. Bers and S. P. Harris, Nature, 2011, 473, 36–39.

A journal article with 3 authors

K. Xia, M. R. Vanner and J. Twamley, Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, 5571.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

T. Yoshida, L. E. Jones, S. P. Ellner, G. F. Fussmann and N. G. Hairston Jr, Nature, 2003, 424, 303–306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

A. Mamishev and S. Williams, Technical Writing for Teams, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

M. Beer, C. Brom, F. Dignum and V.-W. Soo, Eds., Agents for Educational Games and Simulations: International Workshop, AEGS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2, 2011. Revised Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012, vol. 7471.

A chapter in an edited book

J. Endrullis, C. Grabmayer, D. Hendriks, J. W. Klop and R. de Vrijer, in Types for Proofs and Programs: International Conference, TYPES 2008 Torino, Italy, March 26-29, 2008 Revised Selected Papers, eds. S. Berardi, F. Damiani and U. de’Liguoro, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 64–82.

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 Environmental Science: Nano.

Blog post

D. Andrew, There Are 14 Wild Orange-Bellied Parrots Left – This Summer Is Our Last Chance To Save Them, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/there-are-14-wild-orangebellied-parrots-left-this-summer-is-our-last-chance-to-save-them/, (accessed 30 October 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, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Improvements Needed in Continuity Planning and Involvement of Key Users, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

M. M. Roth, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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

K. D. Brownell and M. Nestle, New York Times, 2004, A23.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Environmental Science: Nano
Abbreviation	Environ. Sci. Nano
ISSN (print)	2051-8153
ISSN (online)	2051-8161
Scope	General Environmental Science Materials Science (miscellaneous)