How to format your references using the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine. 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]

M. Freeman, “Feedback control of intercellular signalling in development,” Nature, vol. 408, no. 6810, pp. 313–319, Nov. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. R. Arenkiel and M. D. Ehlers, “Molecular genetics and imaging technologies for circuit-based neuroanatomy,” Nature, vol. 461, no. 7266, pp. 900–907, Oct. 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Srianand, P. Petitjean, and C. Ledoux, “The cosmic microwave background radiation temperature at a redshift of 2.34,” Nature, vol. 408, no. 6815, pp. 931–935, 2000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V. Torres et al., “Mid-infrared plasmonic inductors: enhancing inductance with meandering lines,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 3592, Jan. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Tran, The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

S. J. Tepper and D. E. Tepper, Eds., The Cleveland Clinic Manual of Headache Therapy: Second Edition, 2nd ed. 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Stafford, “Confronting ‘The Conditions’ of Sénégalese Higher Education: Reframing Representation and Activism,” in Education and Youth Agency: Qualitative Case Studies in Global Contexts, J. G. DeJaeghere, J. Josić, and K. S. McCleary, Eds., in Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 65–82.

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 IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “New Stars Born at Milky Way’s Edge,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-stars-born-milky-ways-edge/

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, “Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Many Federal Programs Fund Transportation Services, but Obstacles to Coordination Persist,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-03-698T, May 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Kutash, “The Relationship Between Nurses’ Emotional Intelligence and Patient Outcomes,” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2015.

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]

J. Poniewozik, “Feeding Nostalgia With a Remix,” New York Times, p. C1, Aug. 29, 2016.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Nanotechnol. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1932-4510
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering