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

Bunk, S.: Better microscopes will be instrumental in nanotechnology development. Nature. 410, 127–129 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwalb, N.K., Temps, F.: Base sequence and higher-order structure induce the complex excited-state dynamics in DNA. Science. 322, 243–245 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Inoue, M., Tanimoto, M., Oda, Y.: The role of ear stone size in hair cell acoustic sensory transduction. Sci. Rep. 3, 2114 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, L., Thomas, R.M., Suzuki, H., De Brabander, J.K., Wang, X., Harran, P.G.: A small molecule Smac mimic potentiates TRAIL- and TNFalpha-mediated cell death. Science. 305, 1471–1474 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heitz, E., Kreysa, G.: Grundlagen der Technischen Elektrochemie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG (2005)

An edited book

Abdulla, P.A., Leino, K.R.M. eds: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 17th International Conference, TACAS 2011, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 26–April 3, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Vlachopoulos, C.: Erectile Dysfunction and Testosterone. In: Viigimaa, M., Vlachopoulos, C., and Doumas, M. (eds.) Erectile Dysfunction in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease: A Guide for Clinicians. pp. 29–37. 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 Nanostructure in Chemistry.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: The Center Of Our Galaxy Smells Like Raspberries And Tastes Like Rum, https://www.iflscience.com/space/center-our-galaxy-smells-raspberries-and-tastes-rum/

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: Civil Agency Aircraft: Agencies’ Use of Certain Aircraft to Transport Passengers. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1988)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Piper, M.H.: A Study of the Effectiveness of Alternative Schools through an Examination of Graduation Rates, School Climate, Student Motivation, and Academic Rigor, (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

Greenhouse, L.: After a 32-Year Journey, Justice Stevens Renounces Capital Punishment, (2008)

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

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