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]

P. B. Messersmith, “Materials science. Holding on by a hard-shell thread,” Science, vol. 328, no. 5975, pp. 180–181, Apr. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Schmiedmayer and H. Abele, “ASTROPHYSICS. Probing the dark side,” Science, vol. 349, no. 6250, pp. 786–787, Aug. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. B. Lobell, W. Schlenker, and J. Costa-Roberts, “Climate trends and global crop production since 1980,” Science, vol. 333, no. 6042, pp. 616–620, Jul. 2011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Fadó et al., “X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein negatively regulates neuronal differentiation through interaction with cRAF and Trk,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2397, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. H. Ibe, Terrestrial Radiation Effects in ULSI Devices and Electronic Systems. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Z. Gan, Visual Sensing and its Applications: Integration of Laser Sensors to Industrial Robots. in Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. de Alfaro, L. D. da Silva, M. Faella, A. Legay, P. Roy, and M. Sorea, “Sociable Interfaces,” in Frontiers of Combining Systems: 5th International Workshop, FroCoS 2005, Vienna, Austria, September 19-21, 2005. Proceedings, B. Gramlich, Ed., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005, pp. 81–105.

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]

E. Andrew, “Brain Scans Can Now Detect If You’re In Love,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-scans-reveal-activity-associated-romantic-love/

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, “Insurance Regulation: The Insurance Regulatory Information System Needs Improvement,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GGD-91-20, Nov. 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Johnson, “Searching for Identity and Truth: How Letter Writing Creates Identity in Victorian Literature,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 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

[1]

S. K. (nyt), “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Putin Says Politics Needs More Women,” New York Times, p. A8, Mar. 07, 2003.

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