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

Gladman, B.: ‘The Kuiper belt and the solar system’s comet disk’Science, 2005, 307, (5706), pp. 71–75.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farrow, T., Vedral, V.: ‘Scale-estimation of quantum coherent energy transport in multiple-minima systems’Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p. 5520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bao, H., Lyons, J.R., Zhou, C.: ‘Triple oxygen isotope evidence for elevated CO2 levels after a Neoproterozoic glaciation’Nature, 2008, 453, (7194), pp. 504–506.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lin, Y.-J., Compton, R.L., Jiménez-García, K., Porto, J.V., Spielman, I.B.: ‘Synthetic magnetic fields for ultracold neutral atoms’Nature, 2009, 462, (7273), pp. 628–632.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cabaniss, D.L., Cherry, S., Douglas, C.J., Graver, R.L., Schwartz, A.R.: ‘Psychodynamic Formulation’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013)

An edited book

Bruijn, J. de: ‘Modeling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Language’ (Springer, 2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Kern, T.A.: ‘Modeling the User’, in Kern, T.A. (Ed.): ‘Engineering Haptic Devices: A Beginner’s Guide for Engineers’ (Springer, 2009), pp. 59–93

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.: ‘Humans Were Eating Snails 30,000 Years Ago’, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humans-were-eating-snails-30000-years-ago/, 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: ‘Transportation Infrastructure: Advantages and Disadvantages of Wrap-Up Insurance for Large Construction Projects’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Andrews, M.: ‘Health literacy competencies for health professionals: A Delphi study’. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2014

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

Wagner, J.: ‘Bedeviled by an Elbow, but Blessed With Arms’New York Times, 2017, p. D5.

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