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]

Marx, C. J., 2009, “Microbiology. Getting in Touch with Your Friends,” Science, 324(5931), pp. 1150–1151.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Spero, H. J., and Lea, D. W., 2002, “The Cause of Carbon Isotope Minimum Events on Glacial Terminations,” Science, 296(5567), pp. 522–525.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ye, K., Malinina, L., and Patel, D. J., 2003, “Recognition of Small Interfering RNA by a Viral Suppressor of RNA Silencing,” Nature, 426(6968), pp. 874–878.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Dian, B. C., Brown, G. G., Douglass, K. O., and Pate, B. H., 2008, “Measuring Picosecond Isomerization Kinetics via Broadband Microwave Spectroscopy,” Science, 320(5878), pp. 924–928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Xu, Q. A., and Madden, T. L., 2011, Analytical Methods for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Toxicology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Iguchi, M., 2011, Modeling Multiphase Materials Processes: Gas-Liquid Systems, Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Deakin, M., Campbell, F., Reid, A., and Orsinger, J., 2014, “Systems,” The Mass Retrofitting of an Energy Efficient—Low Carbon Zone, F. Campbell, A. Reid, and J. Orsinger, eds., Springer, London, pp. 73–87.

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]

Andrew, E., 2014, “Biodegradable Plastics From Waste Methane,” IFLScience [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/biodegradable-plastics-waste-methane/. [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, 1987, The Army’s Risk Assessment of Chemical Munitions Transportation, T-NSIAD-88-2, 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]

Jurka, J., 2010, “The Importance of Being a Complement: CED Effects Revisited,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park.

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]

Borjas, G., 2017, “The Immigration Debate We Need,” New York Times, p. A21.

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

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