How to format your references using the Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine citation style

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

[1]

Russell, P., 2003, “Photonic Crystal Fibers,” Science, 299(5605), pp. 358–362.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Morris, R. G. M., and Takeuchi, T., 2012, “Neuroscience. The Imaginary Mind of a Mouse,” Science, 335(6075), pp. 1455–1456.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Séguin, B., Singer, P. A., and Daar, A. S., 2006, “Science Community: Scientific Diasporas,” Science, 312(5780), pp. 1602–1603.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Rosso, G., Liashkovich, I., Gess, B., Young, P., Kun, A., and Shahin, V., 2014, “Unravelling Crucial Biomechanical Resilience of Myelinated Peripheral Nerve Fibres Provided by the Schwann Cell Basal Lamina and PMP22,” Sci. Rep., 4, p. 7286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Etube, L. S., 2000, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of Offshore Structures, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Tatnall, A., and Leslie, C., eds., 2016, International Communities of Invention and Innovation: IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2016, Brooklyn, NY, USA, May 25-29, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nordlinger, B., 2006, “Surgery and Chemotherapy Combined for Colorectal Liver Metastases,” Liver and Pancreatic Diseases Management, N.A. Habib, and R. Canelo, eds., Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 29–30.

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 Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Fang, J., 2014, “Monkeys Believe in Winning Streaks Like Us,” IFLScience.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 1978, Use of Minicomputers for Internal Revenue Service Tax Return Preparation, 107397, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mednick Takami, L., 2017, “Chief Diversity Officers in U.S. Higher Education: Impacting the Campus Climate for Diversity,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

[1]

Corkery, M., 2017, “Hudson’s Bay, Saks Owner, Loses C.E.O. At Busy Time,” New York Times, p. B3.

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 Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med.
ISSN (print)	1949-2944
ISSN (online)	1949-2952
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering General Materials Science General Medicine