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]

Lohmueller KE. Evolution. On the origin of Peter Rabbit. Science. 2014;345:1000–1001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pack CC, Born RT. Temporal dynamics of a neural solution to the aperture problem in visual area MT of macaque brain. Nature. 2001;409:1040–1042.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Arita I, Nakane M, Fenner F. Public health. Is polio eradication realistic? Science. 2006;312:852–854.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Lunzer M, Miller SP, Felsheim R, et al. The biochemical architecture of an ancient adaptive landscape. Science. 2005;310:499–501.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Joule JA, Mills K. Heterocyclic Chemistry at a Glance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Blanchini F. Set-Theoretic Methods in Control. Miani S, editor. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Härdle WK, Hlávka Z. Theory of the Multinormal. In: Hlávka Z, editor. Multivariate Statistics: Exercises and Solutions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 71–88.

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]

Taub B. Archaeologists Have Discovered A Brand New Ancient God [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-discovered-brand-new-ancient-god/.

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. Distance Education: More Data Could Improve Education’s Ability to Track Technology at Minority Serving Institutions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003. Report No.: GAO-03-900. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hrivnak GA. Extending a model of leader -member exchange development: Individual and dyadic effects of personality, similarity and liking [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: 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

[1]

Wagner J. Catch of the Year So Far. No Ball Involved. New York Times. 2017 Mar 3;D4.

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