How to format your references using the Nano Today citation style

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

M.G. Ritchie, Evolution. Feathers, females, and fathers, Science 318 (2007) 54–55.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Laanisto, M.J. Hutchings, Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness,” Science 350 (2015) 1177.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.C. Cohen, J.D. Horton, H.H. Hobbs, Human fatty liver disease: old questions and new insights, Science 332 (2011) 1519–1523.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Wu, E. Boyle, W. Sunda, L.S. Wen, Soluble and colloidal iron in the oligotrophic North Atlantic and North Pacific, Science 293 (2001) 847–849.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.J. Sailor, Porous Silicon in Practice, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

K.C. Ferdinand, A. Armani, eds., Cardiovascular Disease in Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Calzolai, R. De Nicola, M. Loreti, F. Tiezzi, TAPAs: A Tool for the Analysis of Process Algebras, in: K. Jensen, W.M.P. van der Aalst, J. Billington (Eds.), Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 54–70.

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 Today.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Questions No One Knows The Answers To, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/questions-no-one-knows-answers/ (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, Public Education: Title I Services Provided to Students With Limited English Proficiency, 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

[1]

W. Luong, An identity building program for American-born children of Southeast Asian refugees, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

C. Kelly, Orphans, Drug Wars and Other Mysteries, New York Times (2013) A25B.

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 Today
Abbreviation	Nano Today
ISSN (print)	1748-0132
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering General Materials Science Pharmaceutical Science