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]

E. Asphaug, Adventures in near-Earth object exploration, Science 312 (2006) 1328–1329.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Truffer, M. Fahnestock, Climate change. Rethinking ice sheet time scales, Science 315 (2007) 1508–1510.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Huang, M. Bai, L. Wang, General and facile surface functionalization of hydrophobic nanocrystals with poly(amino acid) for cell luminescence imaging, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2023.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Li, V. Balédent, N. Barisić, Y. Cho, B. Fauqué, Y. Sidis, G. Yu, X. Zhao, P. Bourges, M. Greven, Unusual magnetic order in the pseudogap region of the superconductor HgBa2CuO4+delta, Nature 455 (2008) 372–375.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Hartley, Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Z. Deng, H. Li, eds., Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference: Intelligent Automation, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Greenwood, L. Brown, The Treaty, the Institution and the Chalkface: An Institution-wide Project in Teacher Education, in: T. Townsend, R. Bates (Eds.), Handbook of Teacher Education, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 67–78.

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]

A. Carpineti, Atmospheric Winds Could Help Us Study The Magnetic Field Of Exoplanets, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/atmospheric-winds-could-help-us-study-the-magnetic-field-of-exoplanets/ (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, Mass Transit: Effects of Tax Changes on Commuter Behavior, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Cardillo-Geller, Renegotiating relationships, patterns of grief and experiences of support: An examination of mothers’ relationships with their daughters following daughters’ loss of a husband in the September 11 th, 2001 World Trade Center attacks, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 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

[1]

M. Flegenheimer, Piecing Through ‘Utter Chaos’ After Train Crash, New York Times (2015) A1.

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