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

Albrecht M (2009) Chemistry. Carbenes in action. Science 326:532–533

A journal article with 2 authors

Winograd IJ, Roseboom EH Jr (2008) Nuclear waste. Yucca Mountain revisited. Science 320:1426–1427

A journal article with 3 authors

Korswagen HC, Herman MA, Clevers HC (2000) Distinct beta-catenins mediate adhesion and signalling functions in C. elegans. Nature 406:527–532

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bachnoff N, Cohen-Kutner M, Trus M, Atlas D (2013) Intra-membrane signaling between the voltage-gated Ca2+-channel and cysteine residues of syntaxin 1A coordinates synchronous release. Sci Rep 3:1620

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Courant R, McShane EJ (1988) Differential and Integral Calculus. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Knahr K (2012) Total Hip Arthroplasty: Wear Behaviour of Different Articulations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Brame A, Jones A (2009) Diffuse Interstitial Lung Disease. In: McLuckie A (ed) Respiratory Disease and its Management. Springer, London, pp 41–49

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 (2015) Immunized Devils Set To Be Released. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/immunized-devils-set-be-released/. 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 (2010) Business Systems Modernization: Scope and Content of DOD’s Congressional Report and Executive Oversight of Investments Need to Improve. 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

Anderson MS (2017) Integrating Emergency Medical Services Into the Patient-Centered Medical Home. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Crow K (2000) Selling Tea as Serenity, Not Snobbery. New York Times 144

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

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