How to format your references using the NanoImpact citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for NanoImpact. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Zoback, M.D., 2000. Earth science. Strength of the San Andreas. Nature 405, 31–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peng, C., Gao, F., 2014. Protein localization analysis of essential genes in prokaryotes. Sci. Rep. 4, 6001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hammarström, P., Schneider, F., Kelly, J.W., 2001. Trans-suppression of misfolding in an amyloid disease. Science 293, 2459–2462.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sabri, Y.M., Ippolito, S.J., Tardio, J., Bansal, V., O’Mullane, A.P., Bhargava, S.K., 2014. Gold nanospikes based microsensor as a highly accurate mercury emission monitoring system. Sci. Rep. 4, 6741.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Van Der Pijl, P., Solomon, L.K., Lokitz, J., 2016. How To Design a Better Business. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Katz, S., Ossher, H., France, R., Jézéquel, J.-M. (Eds.), 2009. Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development VI: Special Issue on Aspects and Model-Driven Engineering, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Cilley, C., 2008. Latin America’s Mixed Views About Globalization, Investments and the United States, in: Carballo, M., Hjelmar, U. (Eds.), Public Opinion Polling in a Globalized World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 61–76.

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 NanoImpact.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Smoking Can Erase Y Chromosome From Cells [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/smoking-destroys-y-chromosomes/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1993. Hubble Space Telescope (No. NSIAD-93-247R). 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

Pelletier, J.M., 2017. Effects of Data Breaches on Sector-Wide Systematic Risk in Financial, Technology, Healthcare and Services Sectors (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

McKINLEY, J.C., Jr, 2017. 21 Years After Businessman’s Murder, His Wife and Her Brother Are Arrested. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Zoback, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Peng and Gao, 2014; Zoback, 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Peng and Gao, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Sabri et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	NanoImpact
Abbreviation	NanoImpact
ISSN (print)	2452-0748
Scope	Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Materials Science (miscellaneous) Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety Research