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]

A. Arneth, “Climate science: Uncertain future for vegetation cover,” Nature, vol. 524, no. 7563, pp. 44–45, Aug. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Armakolas and A. J. S. Klar, “Left-right dynein motor implicated in selective chromatid segregation in mouse cells,” Science, vol. 315, no. 5808, pp. 100–101, Jan. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Li, A. Zhou, and T. Sang, “Rice domestication by reducing shattering,” Science, vol. 311, no. 5769, pp. 1936–1939, Mar. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Sharma, S. K. Kumar, S. V. Buldyrev, P. G. Debenedetti, P. J. Rossky, and H. E. Stanley, “A coarse-grained protein model in a water-like solvent,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 1841, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. A. Dunne, A Statistical Approach to Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

An edited book

[1]

R. Ulber and Y. L. Gal, Eds., Marine Biotechnology II, vol. 97. in Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, vol. 97. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Draszawka, J. Szymański, and F. Guerra, “Improving css-KNN Classification Performance by Shifts in Training Data,” in Semantic Keyword-based Search on Structured Data Sources: First COST Action IC1302 International KEYSTONE Conference, IKC 2015, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-9, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, J. Cardoso, F. Guerra, G.-J. Houben, A. M. Pinto, and Y. Velegrakis, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 51–63.

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, “Scientists Translate Penguin Calls,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-translate-penguin-calls/

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, “Information Technology: Leadership Remains Key to Agencies Making Progress on Enterprise Architecture Efforts,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-04-40, Nov. 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. S. Chaves, “Novel approach for the creation of thin films and interconnects using single walled carbon nanotubes inkjet technology and bacteria,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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. C. McKINLEY Jr, “New York City Scraps 644,000 Old Warrants for Minor Offenses,” New York Times, p. A1, Aug. 10, 2017.

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