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]

J. H. R. Lambers, “Ecology. Extinction risks from climate change,” Science, vol. 348, no. 6234, pp. 501–502, May 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Braithwaite and H. C. Spruit, “A fossil origin for the magnetic field in A stars and white dwarfs,” Nature, vol. 431, no. 7010, pp. 819–821, Oct. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. C. Burns, R. C. Ewing, and A. Navrotsky, “Nuclear fuel in a reactor accident,” Science, vol. 335, no. 6073, pp. 1184–1188, Mar. 2012.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. L. Capak et al., “A massive protocluster of galaxies at a redshift of z ≈ 5.3,” Nature, vol. 470, no. 7333, pp. 233–235, Feb. 2011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Derbyshire, Nutrition in the Childbearing Years. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

L. M. Camarinha-Matos, S. Tomic, and P. Graça, Eds., Technological Innovation for the Internet of Things: 4th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2013, Costa de Caparica, Portugal, April 15-17, 2013. Proceedings, vol. 394. in IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 394. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Quarteroni, F. Saleri, and P. Gervasio, “Differenziazione ed integrazione numerica,” in Calcolo Scientifico: Esercizi e problemi risolti con MATLAB e Octave, F. Saleri and P. Gervasio, Eds., in UNITEXT. , Milano: Springer, 2012, pp. 115–136.

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]

B. Taub, “Something Weird Happens When You Give Cocaine To Fish,” IFLScience.

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, “Year 2000 Computing Crisis: FAA Is Making Progress But Important Challenges Remain,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-AIMD/RCED-99-118, Mar. 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. G. Hilmey, “Synthesis and Study of Heteroatomic Spirocyclic Scaffolds,” Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2006.

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]

L. Greenhouse, “Justices Ponder Relationship of Federal and State Courts,” New York Times, p. A20, Oct. 12, 2006.

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