How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience. 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

[1]

J. Schooler, “Unpublished results hide the decline effect,” Nature, vol. 470, no. 7335, p. 437, Feb. 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. T. Fuller and A. C. Spradling, “Male and female Drosophila germline stem cells: two versions of immortality,” Science, vol. 316, no. 5823, pp. 402–404, Apr. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. K. Wootton, C. L. Halbert, and A. D. Miller, “Sheep retrovirus structural protein induces lung tumours,” Nature, vol. 434, no. 7035, pp. 904–907, Apr. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. D. Hernandez, K. Hueffer, M. R. Wenk, and J. E. Galán, “Salmonella modulates vesicular traffic by altering phosphoinositide metabolism,” Science, vol. 304, no. 5678, pp. 1805–1807, Jun. 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. L. Freeman, Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.

An edited book

[1]

P. F. Fox and P. L. H. McSweeney, Eds., Advanced Dairy Chemistry Volume 2 Lipids, Third Edition. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Zhao and E. Hoffman, “Transcriptional Cascades in Muscle Regeneration,” in Skeletal Muscle Repair and Regeneration, T. Partridge, Ed., in Advances in Muscle Research. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2008, pp. 85–106.

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 Transactions on NanoBioscience.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “The Possible Cause Of Flashbacks Discovered,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/possible-cause-flashbacks-discovered/

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, “What Every Auditor Should Know About Computer Information Systems,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 130454, Jun. 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. J. Rendleman, “Energetics of Physiological Plasticity during Larval Development of the Sand Dollar, Dendraster Excentricus,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

B. Sisario, “A No. 1 for Lady Gaga,” New York Times, p. C3, Oct. 31, 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 Transactions on NanoBioscience
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Nanobioscience
ISSN (print)	1536-1241
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering Computer Science Applications Biomedical Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Medicine (miscellaneous) Pharmaceutical Science