How to format your references using the IET Nanobiotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IET Nanobiotechnology. 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

Smaglik, P.: ‘Georgia on the mind’Nature, 2007, 445, (7129), pp. 790–791.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Higgins, P., Elton, S.: ‘Anthropology. Walking on trees’Science, 2007, 316, (5829), pp. 1292–1294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gao, Y., Chen, G., Chan, R.H.M.: ‘Naming game on networks: let everyone be both speaker and hearer’Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p. 6149.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wada, H., Masuda, K., Satoh, R., et al.: ‘Adult T-cell progenitors retain myeloid potential’Nature, 2008, 452, (7188), pp. 768–772.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pearce, R., Barnes, S.: ‘Raising Venture Capital’ (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2006)

An edited book

Lech, M., Song, I., Yellowlees, P., Diederich, J. (Eds.): ‘Mental Health Informatics’ (Springer, 2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Seeling, P., Fitzek, F.H.P., Reisslein, M.: ‘Video Trace Generation’, in Fitzek, F.H.P., Reisslein, M. (Eds.): ‘Video Traces for Network Performance Evaluation: A Comprehensive Overview and Guide on Video Traces and Their Utilization in Networking Research’ (Springer Netherlands, 2007), pp. 59–81

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 IET Nanobiotechnology.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: ‘New Hypothesis For Mercury’s Unusual Formation’, https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-hypothesis-mercury’s-unusual-formation/, accessed October 2018

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

Government Accountability Office: ‘Review of Vending Operations on Federally Controlled Property’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kwon, Y.: ‘Extreme value estimators: Their long memory feature and forecasting performances in the U.S. stock indexes’. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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

Colt, G.H.: ‘Sibling Rivalry: One Long Food Fight’New York Times, 2012, p. SR3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	IET Nanobiotechnology
Abbreviation	IET Nanobiotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1751-8741
Scope	Biotechnology Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials