How to format your references using the Nano Futures citation style

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

Brumfiel G 2002 Keeping up appearances Nature 419 419

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chaudhari K and Pradeep T 2014 Spatiotemporal mapping of three dimensional rotational dynamics of single ultrasmall gold nanorods Sci. Rep. 4 5948

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Morens D M, Subbarao K and Taubenberger J K 2012 Engineering H5N1 avian influenza viruses to study human adaptation Nature 486 335–40

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Schwenk J, Metz M, Zolles G, Turecek R, Fritzius T, Bildl W, Tarusawa E, Kulik A, Unger A, Ivankova K, Seddik R, Tiao J Y, Rajalu M, Trojanova J, Rohde V, Gassmann M, Schulte U, Fakler B and Bettler B 2010 Native GABA(B) receptors are heteromultimers with a family of auxiliary subunits Nature 465 231–5

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Zhang W, Shmulevich I and Astola J 2005 Microarray Quality Control (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Czarnowski I, Caballero A M, Howlett R J and Jain L C 2016 Intelligent Decision Technologies 2016: Proceedings of the 8th KES International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT 2016) – Part I vol 56 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhao X, Hwang B-G and Low S P 2015 Conceptual Model: Linking ERM Implementation to Theories of Organizational Behavior Enterprise Risk Management in International Construction Operations ed B-G Hwang and S P Low (Singapore: Springer) pp 135–63

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 Nano Futures.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B 2016 Italy Calls In Its Army To Help Grow Medical Marijuana 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 1999 Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Status of Bureau of Prisons’ Year 2000 Efforts (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

DeMoss M D 2010 Mapping the issues: A content analysis of elementary and secondary education news stories from 1968 to 2008 on television networks Doctoral dissertation (Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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]

de la MERCED M J and Drape J 2017 Co-Founder of Alibaba Is Said to Buy a 49 Percent Stake in the Nets New York Times D1

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	Nano Futures
ISSN (online)	2399-1984
Scope