How to format your references using the Materials Today Nano citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Materials Today Nano. 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

[1]

J. Osborne, Arguing to learn in science: the role of collaborative, critical discourse, Science 328 (2010) 463–466.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.A. Micchelli, N. Perrimon, Evidence that stem cells reside in the adult Drosophila midgut epithelium, Nature 439 (2006) 475–479.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.N. Reynolds, B.I. Hyland, J.R. Wickens, A cellular mechanism of reward-related learning, Nature 413 (2001) 67–70.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Pederson, R. Young, I. Lucchitta, L.S. Beard, G. Billingsley, Comment on “Age and evolution of the Grand Canyon revealed by U-Pb dating of water table-type speleothems,” Science 321 (2008) 1634; author reply 1634.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.M. Reed, Hrci, The HRCI Official Body of Knowledge, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

K. Saeed, J. Pejaś, eds., Information Processing and Security Systems, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.-I. Hwang, M.-H. Sung, I.-J. Kim, S.C. Ahn, H.-G. Kim, H. Ko, Painting Alive: Handheld Augmented Reality System for Large Targets, in: R. Shumaker (Ed.), Virtual Augmented and Mixed Reality. Designing and Developing Augmented and Virtual Environments: 5th International Conference, VAMR 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 32–38.

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 Materials Today Nano.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Meet The Super Salamander, Who Very Nearly Ate Your Ancestors For Breakfast, IFLScience (2015).

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, Proposed Regulation Prescribing New “Fixed-Price Options” " Provisions for Use in Automatic Data Processing Systems Procurement, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.C. Holler, A phenomenological case study of finding meaning through the developmental nature of a doctoral program in organization change, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2015.

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]

J. Koblin, Emmys Seek Ratings Winner, New York Times (2016) C1.

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	Materials Today Nano
ISSN (print)	2588-8420
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