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]

D.C. Clary, Quantum dynamics of chemical reactions, Science. 321 (2008) 789–791.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Jung, Karato S, Water-induced fabric transitions in olivine, Science. 293 (2001) 1460–1463.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Guo, W. Wang, A. Bradley, Mismatch repair genes identified using genetic screens in Blm-deficient embryonic stem cells, Nature. 429 (2004) 891–895.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Nakata, G. Zanchetta, B.D. Chapman, C.D. Jones, J.O. Cross, R. Pindak, T. Bellini, N.A. Clark, End-to-end stacking and liquid crystal condensation of 6 to 20 base pair DNA duplexes, Science. 318 (2007) 1276–1279.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.R. Islam, M.E. Hossain, S.H. Moussavizadegan, S. Mustafiz, J.H. Abou&xKassem, Advanced Petroleum Reservoir Simulation, John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

A. López Basaguren, L. Escajedo San Epifanio, eds., The Ways of Federalism in Western Countries and the Horizons of Territorial Autonomy in Spain: Volume 1, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.N. Mather, On the Homology of Haefliger’s Classifying Space, in: V. Villani (Ed.), Differential Topology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 71–116.

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, Scientists Discover “Reset Button” For The Body’s Biological Clock, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-discover-reset-button-bodys-biological-clock/ (accessed October 30, 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, Higher Education: Information on Minority-Targeted Scholarships, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.L. Fair, Structure of the Roberts Mountains allochthon in the Three Bar Ranch Quadrangle, Roberts Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

M. Billard, Old Is Good, Cheaper Is Better, New York Times. (2010) E5.

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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