How to format your references using the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology citation style

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

D. Gershon, Nature 405, 257 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

H. J. Koester and D. Johnston, Science 308, 863 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

D. A. Cacchione, L. F. Pratson, and A. S. Ogston, Science 296, 724 (2002).

A journal article with 99 or more authors

M. Tamura, F. Yanagawa, S. Sugiura, T. Takagi, K. Sumaru, H. Matsui, and T. Kanamori, Sci. Rep. 4, 4793 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

M. M. Khan and M. R. Islam, Zero Waste Engineering, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2012).

An edited book

S. M. Thampi, A. Y. Zomaya, T. Strufe, J. M. Alcaraz Calero, and T. Thomas, Editors, Recent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security: International Conference, SNDS 2012, Trivandrum, India, October 11-12, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer (2012).

A chapter in an edited book

B. Clausen, D. W. Brown, C. N. Tomé, C. J. Neil, J. A. Wollmershauser, and S. R. Agnew, Application of a Finite Strain Elastic-Plastic Self-Consistent Model to Deformation of Magnesium, in Engineering Applications of Residual Stress, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Edited by T. Proulx, New York, NY, Springer (2011), pp. 33–34.

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 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

Blog post

T. Hale, Russia Might Ban Tobacco For Anyone Born After 2014, (2017).at <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/russia-might-ban-tobacco-for-anyone-born-after-2014/>

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, Telecommunications: FCC Should Evaluate the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Lifeline Program, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office (2015).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

S. M. Newsom, Love and Creativity: A Shared Dynamic, (2012).

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

D. W. Chen, Safety Citations and Anonymous Deaths, (2015).

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 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Abbreviation	J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1533-4880
ISSN (online)	1533-4899
Scope	Bioengineering General Chemistry Biomedical Engineering General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics