How to format your references using the Journal of Nanobiotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Nanobiotechnology. 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. O’Neill LAJ. Immunology. Sensing the dark side of DNA. Science. 2013;339:763–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sesma A, Osbourn AE. The rice leaf blast pathogen undergoes developmental processes typical of root-infecting fungi. Nature. 2004;431:582–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Song YQ, Ryu S, Sen PN. Determining multiple length scales in rocks. Nature. 2000;406:178–81.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Quigley DA, To MD, Pérez-Losada J, Pelorosso FG, Mao J-H, Nagase H, et al. Genetic architecture of mouse skin inflammation and tumour susceptibility. Nature. 2009;458:505–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cannon DL. CISA®. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Namjoshi K, Zeller A, Ziv A, editors. Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 5th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2009, Haifa, Israel, October 19-22, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Leducq J-B. Ecological Genomics of Adaptation and Speciation in Fungi. In: Landry CR, Aubin-Horth N, editors. Ecological Genomics: Ecology and the Evolution of Genes and Genomes. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 49–72.

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 Nanobiotechnology.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Loads Of Processed Foods And Drinks Are Way Saltier Than You Think [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/loads-of-processed-foods-and-drinks-are-way-saltier-than-you-think/

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 ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Apr. Report No.: IMTEC-90-39FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Eaglen Bertrando SL. Rethinking Workplace Learning in the Digital World: A Case Study of Open Badges [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

1. Kishkovsky S. Fabergé Eggs May Be Shown In City Where Czar Was Killed. New York Times. 2004 Feb 6;E3.

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 Nanobiotechnology
Abbreviation	J. Nanobiotechnology
ISSN (online)	1477-3155
Scope	Molecular Medicine Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Medicine (miscellaneous) Pharmaceutical Science