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

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

X. Bosch, “Spanish postgrads push for better employment rights,” Nature 405(6788), 723 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

C. H. Bennett and P. W. Shor, “Computers and mathematics. Quantum channel capacities,” Science 303(5665), 1784–1787 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

M. Myrskylä, H.-P. Kohler, and F. C. Billari, “Advances in development reverse fertility declines,” Nature 460(7256), 741–743 (2009).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

J. F. Conway et al., “Virus maturation involving large subunit rotations and local refolding,” Science 292(5517), 744–748 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

E. Hey, Neonatal Formulary 6, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2011).

An edited book

M. Chouchane et al., Eds., Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems - II: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems, CMSM’2015, March 23-25, Hammamet, Tunisia, Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015).

A chapter in an edited book

H. de Alwis Weerasekera, M. Griffith, and E. I. Alarcon, “Biomedical Uses of Silver Nanoparticles: From Roman Wine Cups to Biomedical Devices,” in Silver Nanoparticle Applications: In the Fabrication and Design of Medical and Biosensing Devices, E. I. Alarcon, M. Griffith, and K. I. Udekwu, Eds., pp. 93–125, Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015).

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 Nanophotonics.

Blog post

E. Andrew, “New Study Suggests There Are Health Benefits To Conservation Policies,” IFLScience, 16 June 2015, <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-study-suggests-there-are-health-benefits-conservation-policies/> (accessed 30 October 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, “Use of Remanufactured Parts in the Federal Vehicle Fleet Is Based On a Variety of Factors,” GAO-13-316R, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2013).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

A. Lyzlov, “In Vivo Efficacy of Lanthanum Carbonate on Intestinal Phosphorus Absorption in Stage Five Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Undergoing Peritoneal Dialysis,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach (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

M. W. Walsh, M. Corkery, and J. H. Davis, “White House Will Offer Plan to Help Puerto Rico,” in New York Times, p. B1 (2015).

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 Nanophotonics
Abbreviation	J. Nanophotonics
ISSN (online)	1934-2608
Scope	Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics