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

Keeling, R.F.: ‘Comment on “The ocean sink for anthropogenic CO2”’Science, 2005, 308, (5729), pp. 1743; author reply 1743.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marraffini, L.A., Sontheimer, E.J.: ‘CRISPR interference limits horizontal gene transfer in staphylococci by targeting DNA’Science, 2008, 322, (5909), pp. 1843–1845.

A journal article with 3 authors

Strauss, E., Oszkinis, G., Staniszewski, R.: ‘SEPP1 gene variants and abdominal aortic aneurysm: gene association in relation to metabolic risk factors and peripheral arterial disease coexistence’Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p. 7061.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kawano, N., Miyado, K., Yoshii, N., et al.: ‘Absence of CD9 reduces endometrial VEGF secretion and impairs uterine repair after parturition’Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p. 4701.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilmshurst, L.: ‘Clinical and Educational Child Psychology’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2012)

An edited book

Harris, H., Wijesinghe, G., McKenzie, S. (Eds.): ‘The Heart of the Good Institution: Virtue Ethics as a Framework for Responsible Management’ (Springer Netherlands, 2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Rose, S., van der Laan, M.J.: ‘Understanding TMLE’, in Rose, S. (Ed.): ‘Targeted Learning: Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data’ (Springer, 2011), pp. 83–100

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.: ‘High Blood Pressure May Protect Over-80s From Dementia’, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/high-blood-pressure-may-protect-over80s-from-dementia/, 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: ‘National Aero-Space Plane: A Need for Program Direction and Funding Decisions’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lambert, M.: ‘Generational Differences in the Workplace: The Perspectives of Three Generations on Career Mobility’. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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

Crow, K.: ‘I Say Yip-Yip, You Say Ruff-Ruff: Small Dogs Lobby for Own Dog Run’New York Times, 2002, p. 145.

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