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]

Watts, C., 2004, “Immunology. The Bell Tolls for Phagosome Maturation,” Science, 304(5673), pp. 976–977.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bayer, R., and Colgrove, J., 2002, “Public Health vs. Civil Liberties,” Science, 297(5588), p. 1811.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hembacher, S., Giessibl, F. J., and Mannhart, J., 2004, “Force Microscopy with Light-Atom Probes,” Science, 305(5682), pp. 380–383.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Martin, M. S., Theodore, N. D., Wei, C.-C., and Shao, L., 2014, “Physical Assembly of Ag Nanocrystals on Enclosed Surfaces in Monocrystalline Si,” Sci. Rep., 4, p. 6744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 2015, Guidelines for Defining Process Safety Competency Requirements, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Brooks, A. J., Clasper, J., Midwinter, M., Hodgetts, T. J., and Mahoney, P. F., eds., 2011, Ryan’s Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide, Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cleophas, T. J., and Zwinderman, A. H., 2014, “Ordinal Scaling for Clinical Scores with Inconsistent Intervals (900 Patients with Different Levels of Health),” Machine Learning in Medicine - Cookbook Three, A.H. Zwinderman, ed., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 29–33.

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]

Davis, J., 2015, “Finland To Build The World’s First Permanent Nuclear Waste Disposable Facility,” 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, 1992, Nonfederal Student Loans, HRD-93-1R, 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]

Villegas, B., 2009, “The Optimization and Characterization of Superconducting Magnesium Diboride Thin Films,” 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]

Wilson, M., 2017, “A Respected Figure, Undone by His Lies,” New York Times, p. A22.

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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