How to format your references using the Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry citation style

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

Dehaene, S.: Neuroscience. Single-neuron arithmetic. Science. 297, 1652–1653 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Atkinson, T., Leeder, M.: Geology. Canyon cutting on a grand time scale. Science. 319, 1343–1344 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Shen, Y., Buick, R., Canfield, D.E.: Isotopic evidence for microbial sulphate reduction in the early Archaean era. Nature. 410, 77–81 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jarillo-Herrero, P., Kong, J., van der Zant, H.S.J., Dekker, C., Kouwenhoven, L.P., De Franceschi, S.: Orbital Kondo effect in carbon nanotubes. Nature. 434, 484–488 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wu, Z.: Software VNA and Microwave Network Design and Characterisation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2007)

An edited book

Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Susann, A., Pithouse-Morgan, K. eds: Productive Remembering and Social Agency. SensePublishers, Rotterdam (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Muñoz-Mulas, C., Martínez-Olalla, R., Gómez-Vilda, P., Álvarez-Marquina, A., Mazaira-Fernández, L.M.: Gender Detection in Running Speech from Glottal and Vocal Tract Correlates. In: Drugman, T. and Dutoit, T. (eds.) Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: 6th International Conference, NOLISP 2013, Mons, Belgium, June 19-21, 2013. Proceedings. pp. 25–32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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 Nanostructure in Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Maternal Instinct And Biology: Evolution Ensures We Want Sex, Not Babies, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/maternal-instinct-and-biology-evolution-ensures-we-want-sex-not-babies/

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: Federally Leased Vehicles: Agencies Should Strengthen Assessment Processes to Reduce Underutilized Vehicles. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2016)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Murray, B.A.: Sociocultural factors in women’s health in Swaziland, (2015)

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

Morone, J.A.: Scarface, (2016)

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 Nanostructure in Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Nanostructure Chem.
ISSN (print)	2008-9244
ISSN (online)	2193-8865
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