How to format your references using the Journal of Nanoparticle Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Nanoparticle Research. 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

Chatterjee R (2006) 2006 Visualization Challenge winners. Science 313:1730–1735

A journal article with 2 authors

Shapiro E, Gil B (2008) Cell biology. RNA computing in a living cell. Science 322:387–388

A journal article with 3 authors

Taylor BW, Flecker AS, Hall RO Jr (2006) Loss of a harvested fish species disrupts carbon flow in a diverse tropical river. Science 313:833–836

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Luo J, Wang X, Li S, et al (2018) Efficient and stable emission of warm-white light from lead-free halide double perovskites. Nature 563:541–545

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li F-C, Yu B, Wei J-J, Kawaguchi Y (2011) Turbulent Drag Reduction by Surfactant Additives. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore

An edited book

Tsesis I (ed) (2014) Complications in Endodontic Surgery: Prevention, Identification and Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lu M, Corriveau P (2011) From Personal to Collaborative Information Management: A Design Science’s Approach. In: Salvendy G, Smith MJ (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting with Information: Symposium on Human Interface 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 36–45

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 Nanoparticle Research.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Meet The “Living Rock.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-living-rock/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1972) Reasons for Ending Financial Support to the Dimmitt Independent School District Follow Through Project. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fang L (2015) Do media help deter financial misreporting? Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Feeney K (2009) To Your Health. New York Times NJ9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Chatterjee 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chatterjee 2006; Shapiro and Gil 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Shapiro and Gil 2008)
Three or more authors: (Luo et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Nanoparticle Research
Abbreviation	J. Nanopart. Res.
ISSN (print)	1388-0764
ISSN (online)	1572-896X
Scope	Bioengineering General Chemistry General Materials Science Modelling and Simulation Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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