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 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

Schlosshauer, M., 2008. Lifting the fog from the north. Nature 453, 39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Margoliash, D., Hale, M.E., 2008. Neuroscience. Vertebrate vocalizations. Science 321, 347–348.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mogilner, A., Allard, J., Wollman, R., 2012. Cell polarity: quantitative modeling as a tool in cell biology. Science 336, 175–179.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hosoi, T., Honda, M., Oba, T., Ozawa, K., 2013. ER stress upregulated PGE₂/IFNγ-induced IL-6 expression and down-regulated iNOS expression in glial cells. Sci. Rep. 3, 3388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goering, H., Roos, H.-G., Tobiska, L., 2010. Die Finite-Elemente-Methode für Anfänger. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Berry, S., 2008. Phase Transitions of Simple Systems, Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhasker, J., Chadha, R., 2009. Interconnect Parasitics, in: Bhasker, J. (Ed.), Static Timing Analysis for Nanometer Designs: A Practical Approach. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 101–121.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. What Happens When You Mix Molten Lead And Coca-Cola? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/molten-lead-and-coca-cola-creates-science-art/ (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, 1999. IRS Management: Business and Systems Modernization Pose Challenges (No. T-GGD/AIMD-99-138). 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

Lamanna, S.G., 2012. Colombian Spanish in North Carolina: The role of language and dialect contact in the formation of a new variety of U.S. Spanish (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Herrman, J., 2017. Counter Offensive. New York Times MM11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schlosshauer, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Margoliash and Hale, 2008; Schlosshauer, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Margoliash and Hale, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Hosoi et al., 2013)

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