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]

D. Butler, “Developing world gets patent aid,” Nature, vol. 415, no. 6872, p. 563, Feb. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. E. Huppert and A. W. Woods, “The role of volatiles in magma chamber dynamics,” Nature, vol. 420, no. 6915, pp. 493–495, Dec. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. C. Van Horn, H. E. Watts, and K. E. Holekamp, “Do female hyaenas choose mates based on tenure?,” Nature, vol. 454, no. 7201, pp. E1; discussion E2, Jul. 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. T. Nair, R. E. Johnson, S. Prakash, L. Prakash, and A. K. Aggarwal, “Replication by human DNA polymerase-iota occurs by Hoogsteen base-pairing,” Nature, vol. 430, no. 6997, pp. 377–380, Jul. 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. R. Crichton and R. J. Ward, Metal-based Neurodegeneration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

G. Ferrari, Ed., Sensor Networks: Where Theory Meets Practice. in Signals and Communication Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Li, J. Mao, and S. Wang, “Cylinder Head Fem Analysis and its Improvement,” in Computer And Computing Technologies In Agriculture, Volume II: First IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA 2007), Wuyishan, China, August 18-20, 2007, D. Li, Ed., in The International Federation for Information Processing. , Boston, MA: Springer US, 2008, pp. 761–768.

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]

R. Andrews, “The US Will Lose $2 Trillion By 2030 Thanks To Man-Made Climate Change,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/us-lose-2-trillion-2030-thanks-man-made-climate-change/

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, “Human Resources Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, AA-95-34(4), Oct. 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. N. Huynh, “The healthy eating, aging and living program for older adults at union station homeless services: A grant proposal,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

S. Hodara, “While Others Sleep, They Make Art,” New York Times, p. WE10, Feb. 14, 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