How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Nanoscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental Nanoscience. 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]

Couzin-Frankel J. The elusive heart fix. Science. 2014;345(6194):252–257.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rickaby REM, Halloran P. Cool La Niña during the warmth of the Pliocene? Science. 2005;307(5717):1948–1952.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bishop JKB, Davis RE, Sherman JT. Robotic observations of dust storm enhancement of carbon biomass in the North Pacific. Science. 2002;298(5594):817–821.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Hara KY, Wada T, Kino K, et al. Construction of photoenergetic mitochondria in cultured mammalian cells. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1635.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Vacca JR. Optical Networking Best Practices Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Koutsoukos EAM, editor. Applied Stratigraphy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kanekawa N, Ibe EH, Suga T, et al. Fault-Tolerant System Technology. In: Ibe EH, Suga T, Uematsu Y, editors. Dependability in Electronic Systems: Mitigation of Hardware Failures, Soft Errors, and Electro-Magnetic Disturbances. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p. 143–200.

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 Journal of Experimental Nanoscience.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. NASA Releases 681 Gigapixel Interactive Map of Lunar North Pole [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-releases-681-gigapixel-interactive-map-lunar-north-pole/.

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. FBI Management of Its Automated Information Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983. Report No.: GGD-84-24. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Keep AW. A nanopass framework for commercial compiler development [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2013.

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]

Cowen T, Itzkoff D, Vanderbilt T, et al. The One-Page Magazine. New York Times. 2012 Sep 16;MM11.

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 [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Nanoscience
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Nanosci.
ISSN (print)	1745-8080
ISSN (online)	1745-8099
Scope	Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering General Materials Science