How to format your references using the Nano Letters citation style

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

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Nottebohm, F. Peter Marler (1928-2014). Nature 2014, 512 (7515), 372.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Hannonen, M.; Sundström, L. Sociobiology: Worker Nepotism among Polygynous Ants. Nature 2003, 421 (6926), 910.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Holland, N. D.; Holland, L. Z.; Holland, P. W. H. Scenarios for the Making of Vertebrates. Nature 2015, 520 (7548), 450–455.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Yasue, A.; Mitsui, S. N.; Watanabe, T.; Sakuma, T.; Oyadomari, S.; Yamamoto, T.; Noji, S.; Mito, T.; Tanaka, E. Highly Efficient Targeted Mutagenesis in One-Cell Mouse Embryos Mediated by the TALEN and CRISPR/Cas Systems. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5705.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Ronen, T. The Positive Power of Imagery; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

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Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor; Gentleman, R., Carey, V. J., Huber, W., Irizarry, R. A., Dudoit, S., Eds.; Statistics for Biology and Health; Springer: New York, NY, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

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Pomar, V.; Domingo, P. Acute Viral Meningitis. In CNS Infections: A Clinical Approach; García-Moncó, J. C., Ed.; Springer: London, 2014; pp 45–55.

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 Letters.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. Cosmos For Creationists. 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

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Government Accountability Office. GSA’s Effort to Develop Year 2000 Business Continuity and Contingency Plans for Telecommunications Systems; AIMD-99-201R; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Kuang, S.-Y. H. “And the War Came”: A Memorial to Devastated Lives. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

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Sturm, J. On the Move. New York Times. May 12, 2017, p BR22.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Letters
Abbreviation	Nano Lett.
ISSN (print)	1530-6984
ISSN (online)	1530-6992
Scope	Bioengineering General Chemistry Mechanical Engineering General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics