How to format your references using the NanoEthics citation style

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

Kieffer J (2003) Materials science. Not too hot to handle. Science 299:1998–1999

A journal article with 2 authors

Kelemen PB, Hirth G (2007) A periodic shear-heating mechanism for intermediate-depth earthquakes in the mantle. Nature 446:787–790

A journal article with 3 authors

Su Q-P, Yang C-P, Zheng S-B (2014) Fast and simple scheme for generating NOON states of photons in circuit QED. Sci Rep 4:3898

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sockolosky JT, Trotta E, Parisi G, et al (2018) Selective targeting of engineered T cells using orthogonal IL-2 cytokine-receptor complexes. Science 359:1037–1042

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Featherstone H, Holt E (2011) Small Animal Ophthalmology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Iliadis L, Jayne C (2011) Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: 12th INNS EANN-SIG International Conference, EANN 2011 and 7th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference, AIAI 2011, Corfu, Greece, September 15-18, 2011, Proceedings Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Eidem BW (2014) Functional Evaluation of the Heart by Transesophageal Echocardiography. In: Wong PC, Miller-Hance WC (eds) Transesophageal Echocardiography for Congenital Heart Disease. Springer, London, pp 121–144

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 NanoEthics.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Robot Crab To Give You Nightmares. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robot-crab-give-you-nightmares/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1976) Cable Television and a Regulatory Policy. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Giles CL (2015) Faculty mentoring of undergraduate students: A qualitative phenomenological study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Chauncey G (2013) The Long Road to Marriage Equality. New York Times A31

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	NanoEthics
Abbreviation	Nanoethics
ISSN (print)	1871-4757
ISSN (online)	1871-4765
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science Philosophy Management of Technology and Innovation Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Sociology and Political Science