How to format your references using the Journal of Materials NanoScience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Materials 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

J. Peto. Cancer epidemiology in the last century and the next decade. Nature 2001, 411 (6835), 390–395.

A journal article with 2 authors

G.K. Hansson, M. Björkholm. Medicine. Tackling two diseases with HDL. Science 2010, 328 (5986), 1641–1642.

A journal article with 3 authors

J.A. Thomas, D.J. Simcox, R.T. Clarke. Successful conservation of a threatened Maculinea butterfly. Science 2009, 325 (5936), 80–83.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Y. Cui, Y. Yang, Z. Ni, et al. Astroglial Kir4.1 in the lateral habenula drives neuronal bursts in depression. Nature 2018, 554 (7692), 323–327.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

V. Levitin. High Temperature Strain of Metals and Alloys; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

Theory and Simulation of Hard-Sphere Fluids and Related Systems; Mulero, Á., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Physics; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; Vol. 753.

A chapter in an edited book

S. Nathanson. Political Polarization and the Markets vs. Government Debate. In Philosophical Perspectives on Democracy in the 21st Century; Cudd, A. E., Scholz, S. J., Eds.; AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice; Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014; pp 57–73.

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 Materials NanoScience.

Blog post

E. Andrew. GM Mosquitoes Set To Be Released In Brazil To Combat Dengue (accessed Oct 30, 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. Responses of Federal Agencies and Airports We Surveyed About Access Security Improvements; GAO-01-1069R; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

R.M. Lenz. Iron, Arsenic, and Elevated Salinity in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer of Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2017.

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

B. Rothenberg. Tricky Draw, and Tricky Hip, Stand in Way of Murray’s Title Defense. New York Times. June 30, 2017, p D2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Materials NanoScience
ISSN (print)	2394-0867
Scope