How to format your references using the Nanomaterials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nanomaterials. 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

Glynn, I. An Intriguing Door. Nature 2001, 413, 683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yoo, A.S.; Greenwald, I. LIN-12/Notch Activation Leads to MicroRNA-Mediated down-Regulation of Vav in C. Elegans. Science 2005, 310, 1330–1333.

A journal article with 3 authors

Herne, M.C.; Nair, J.P.; Salisbury, S.W. Comment on “A Southern Tyrant Reptile.” Science 2010, 329, 1013; author reply 1013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Denicol, A.C.; Dobbs, K.B.; McLean, K.M.; Carambula, S.F.; Loureiro, B.; Hansen, P.J. Canonical WNT Signaling Regulates Development of Bovine Embryos to the Blastocyst Stage. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1266.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones, R.B. 20% Chance of Rain; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011; ISBN 9781118116371.

An edited book

Forest Landscapes and Global Change: Challenges for Research and Management; Azevedo, J.C., Perera, A.H., Pinto, M.A., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2014; ISBN 9781493909520.

A chapter in an edited book

Ruggiero, V. Corporate War Crimes. In The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and War; McGarry, R., Walklate, S., Eds.; Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2016; pp. 61–77 ISBN 9781137431691.

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 Nanomaterials.

Blog post

Andrew, E. First Atomic Bomb Test May Mark The Beginning Of The Anthropocene Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/first-atomic-bomb-test-may-mark-beginning-anthropocene/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Pell Grant Validation Imposes Some Costs and Does Not Greatly Reduce Award Errors: New Strategies Are Needed; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1985;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

E, C.-C. The Syntax of Comparative Correlatives in Mandarin Chinese. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ, 2014.

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

Schilling, M.K. A Sense of Place. New York Times 2017, M2100.

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	Nanomaterials
Abbreviation	Nanomaterials (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2079-4991
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