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

Zasloff, M., 2002. Antimicrobial peptides of multicellular organisms. Nature 415, 389–395.

A journal article with 2 authors

Calka, A., Wexler, D., 2002. Mechanical milling assisted by electrical discharge. Nature 419, 147–151.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Valkenburgh, B., Wang, X., Damuth, J., 2004. Cope’s rule, hypercarnivory, and extinction in North American canids. Science 306, 101–104.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

He, J., Ritalahti, K.M., Yang, K.-L., Koenigsberg, S.S., Löffler, F.E., 2003. Detoxification of vinyl chloride to ethene coupled to growth of an anaerobic bacterium. Nature 424, 62–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saghyan, A.S., Langer, P., 2016. Asymmetric Synthesis of Non&;#x02010;Proteinogenic Amino Acids. Wiley&;#x02010;VCH Verlag GmbH &;#38; Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Sun, C., Fang, F., Zhou, Z.-H., Yang, W., Liu, Z.-Y. (Eds.), 2013. Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering: 4th International Conference, IScIDE 2013, Beijing, China, July 31 – August 2, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

ten Thij, M., Bhulai, S., 2016. Modelling Trend Progression Through an Extension of the Polya Urn Process, in: Wierzbicki, A., Brandes, U., Schweitzer, F., Pedreschi, D. (Eds.), Advances in Network Science: 12th International Conference and School, NetSci-X 2016, Wroclaw, Poland, January 11-13, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 57–67.

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. Depression Doesn’t Spread Like A Disease, But Good Moods Do [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/depression-doesn-t-spread-disease-good-moods-do/ (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. Tax Abatement (No. HRD-93-27R). 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

Mazyck, B.S., 2012. Leadership behavior and teacher attrition: A qualitative phenomenological inquiry of job satisfaction (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Shpigel, B., 2017. Cowboys Have It All (Including, Somehow, a Losing Record). New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zasloff, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Calka and Wexler, 2002; Zasloff, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Calka and Wexler, 2002)
Three or more authors: (He et al., 2003)

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

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