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

Elvis, M., 2012. Greater observatories: A midlife crisis for X-ray astronomy. Nature 486, 181–182.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleckner, D., Bouwmeester, D., 2006. Sub-kelvin optical cooling of a micromechanical resonator. Nature 444, 75–78.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonneh, Y.S., Cooperman, A., Sagi, D., 2001. Motion-induced blindness in normal observers. Nature 411, 798–801.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gao, Y., Trivedi, S., Ferris, R.L., Koide, K., 2014. Regulation of HPV16 E6 and MCL1 by SF3B1 inhibitor in head and neck cancer cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 6098.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosenbaum, J., Pearl, J., 2009. Investment Banking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hsu, R.C.-H., Wang, S. (Eds.), 2014. Internet of Vehicles – Technologies and Services: First International Conference, IOV, Beijing, China, September 1-3, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Giani, A., Cereda, M., Staurenghi, G., 2009. Spectral-Domain Oct Spectralis* HRA-OCT and Cirrus* Zeiss, in: Coscas, F., Vismara, S., Zourdani, A., Calzi, C.I.L. (Eds.), Optical Coherence Tomography in Age-Related Macular Degeneration: OCT in AMD. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 35–48.

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

Taub, B., 2016. Here’s How The World’s Surface Water Has Shifted In The Last 30 Years [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/heres-how-worlds-surface-water-shifted-last-30-years/ (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, 1997. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: National Credit Union Administration’s Efforts to Ensure Credit Union Systems Are Year 2000 Compliant (No. T-AIMD-98-20). 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

Davidson, A.R., 2013. Computerized physician order entry: An outlook on successful implementation among ambulatory care settings (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2011. Open Is Dominated By News of the Weird. New York Times D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elvis, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Elvis, 2012; Kleckner and Bouwmeester, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Kleckner and Bouwmeester, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Gao 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