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]

Ferrini-Mundy J. Science education. Driven by diversity. Science. 2013;340:278.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Maund JR, Smartt SJ. The disappearance of the progenitors of supernovae 1993J and 2003gd. Science. 2009;324:486–488.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Choudhary A, Kohar V, Sinha S. Taming explosive growth through dynamic random links. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4308.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Begum NA, Kinoshita K, Kakazu N, et al. Uracil DNA glycosylase activity is dispensable for immunoglobulin class switch. Science. 2004;305:1160–1163.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Li P, Marrongelle K. Having Success with NSF. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Villatoro D, Sabater-Mir J, Sichman JS, editors. Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XII: International Workshop, MABS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhao J-M, Wang W-S, Liu X, et al. Big Data Benchmark - Big DS. In: Rabl T, Raghunath N, Poess M, et al., editors. Advancing Big Data Benchmarks: Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop Series on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB.cn, Xi’an, China, July16-17, 2013 and WBDB.us, San José, CA, USA, October 9-10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 49–57.

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]

Carpineti A. Hubble’s Incredible Final Image Of The Frontier Fields [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubbles-incredible-final-image-of-the-frontier-fields/.

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. NASA Workforce: Responses to Follow-up Questions regarding the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Use of Term Appointments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009. Report No.: GAO-09-356R. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tan C. Conceptualizing Psychological History: Edgar Allan Poe and the Themes of the Normal and the Pathological, Life and Death [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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

[1]

Crow K. A Mystery in Harlem. New York Times. 2002 Sep 15;141.

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

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