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]

Maxmen, A., 2012, “The Hard Facts,” Nature, 485(7400), pp. S50-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Li, G., and Luo, Z.-X., 2006, “A Cretaceous Symmetrodont Therian with Some Monotreme-like Postcranial Features,” Nature, 439(7073), pp. 195–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bao, H., Yu, S., and Tong, D. Q., 2010, “Massive Volcanic SO(2) Oxidation and Sulphate Aerosol Deposition in Cenozoic North America,” Nature, 465(7300), pp. 909–912.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Losos, J. B., Schoener, T. W., Langerhans, R. B., and Spiller, D. A., 2006, “Rapid Temporal Reversal in Predator-Driven Natural Selection,” Science, 314(5802), p. 1111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Safari, M., Ariff, M., and Mohamad, S., 2014, Sukuk Securities, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

[1]

Dittmar, T., and Zänker, K. S., eds., 2011, Cell Fusion in Health and Disease, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pearce, E. J., 2016, “Th2 Cell Responses in Immunity and Inflammation Following Helminth Infection,” The Th2 Type Immune Response in Health and Disease: From Host Defense and Allergy to Metabolic Homeostasis and Beyond, W.C. Gause, and D. Artis, eds., Springer, New York, NY, pp. 53–72.

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., 2015, “Scientists Discover Enormous Cretaceous-Era Shark,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/early-cretaceous-shark-was-long-giant-great-white/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-2018].

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, 1984, [Comments on Proposed MOU To Govern GAO Disclosure of FCC Documents], B-199765, 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]

Donohue, J., 2010, “Resolving Past Liabilities for Future Reduction in Greenhouse Gases; Nuclear Energy and the Outstanding Federal Liability of Spent Nuclear Fuel,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University.

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]

Kishkovsky, S., 2004, “In Aisle 3, Merchandise and Perhaps a Masterpiece; Russia’s New Rich Amass Art Collections, Displaying Them in Varied Ways,” New York Times, p. E1.

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