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

Kirschvink, J.L.: Sensory biology: Radio waves zap the biomagnetic compass. Nature. 509, 296–297 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Krushelnick, K., Cowley, S.: Physics. Reduced turbulence and new opportunities for fusion. Science. 309, 1502–1503 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Tobler, P.N., Fiorillo, C.D., Schultz, W.: Adaptive coding of reward value by dopamine neurons. Science. 307, 1642–1645 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chi, T.H., Wan, M., Zhao, K., Taniuchi, I., Chen, L., Littman, D.R., Crabtree, G.R.: Reciprocal regulation of CD4/CD8 expression by SWI/SNF-like BAF complexes. Nature. 418, 195–199 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krichen, S., Chaouachi, J.: Graph-Related Optimization and Decision Support Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Vicars, M., McKenna, T., White, J. eds: Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under. SensePublishers, Rotterdam (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Anderson, A.R.A., Chaplain, M.A.J., McDougall, S.: A Hybrid Discrete-Continuum Model of Tumour Induced Angiogenesis. In: Jackson, T.L. (ed.) Modeling Tumor Vasculature: Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Level Aspects and Implications. pp. 105–133. Springer, New York, NY (2012)

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

Luntz, S.: Investigator Claims To Have Solved The Ripper Mystery Using DNA, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/has-dna-solved-ripper-mystery/

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: Air Traffic Control: Evolution and Status of FAA’s Automation Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1998)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cervantes, I.: Flexural retrofitting of reinforced concrete structures using Green Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer plates, (2013)

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.: Tasting Every Calorie, (2009)

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
Scope