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]

Hayes JM. Geochemistry. The pathway of carbon in nature. Science. 2006;312(5780):1605–1606.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kaeberlein M, Kapahi P. Cell signaling. Aging is RSKy business. Science. 2009;326(5949):55–56.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lourens LJ, Wehausen R, Brumsack HJ. Geological constraints on tidal dissipation and dynamical ellipticity of the Earth over the past three million years. Nature. 2001;409(6823):1029–1033.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Saito Y, Takao H, Tani T, et al. Lead-free piezoceramics. Nature. 2004;432(7013):84–87.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Blackwood N. Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Borsdorf A. The Andes: A Geographical Portrait. Stadel C, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Uzan J-P, Leclercq B. Planning the edifice: structure of theories. In: Leclercq B, editor. The Natural Laws of the Universe: Understanding Fundamental Constants. New York, NY: Praxis; 2008. p. 37–58.

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. Scientists Successfully Insert Woolly Mammoth DNA Into Elephant Genome [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-successfully-insert-woolly-mammoth-dna-elephant-genome/.

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. Commercial Space Launches: FAA’s Risk Assessment Process Is Not Yet Updated. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014. Report No.: GAO-14-328T. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chahine J. Social workers’ perceptions of individuals who use drugs and alcohol problematically [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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]

Barker K, Secret M, Fausset R. Gunman’s Many Identities in a Life of Wrong Turns. New York Times. 2015 Jan 3;A1.

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