How to format your references using the Nanomedicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nanomedicine. 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	Download the output style file
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

Schiermeier Q. German Greens go cold on nuclear fusion. Nature. 405(6783), 107 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Maniatis T, Tasic B. Alternative pre-mRNA splicing and proteome expansion in metazoans. Nature. 418(6894), 236–243 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

Berton O, Hahn C-G, Thase ME. Are we getting closer to valid translational models for major depression? Science. 338(6103), 75–79 (2012).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Frescas D, Guardavaccaro D, Bassermann F, Koyama-Nasu R, Pagano M. JHDM1B/FBXL10 is a nucleolar protein that represses transcription of ribosomal RNA genes. Nature. 450(7167), 309–313 (2007).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lütolf-Carroll C, Antti Pirnes, Withers LLP. From Innovation to Cash Flows. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Huang X, Chen Y-S, Ao S-I, editors. Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Kleppel GS, Porter DE, DeVoe MR. Urban Typology and Estuarine Biodiversity in Rapidly Developing Coastal Watersheds. In: Changing Land Use Patterns in the Coastal Zone: Managing Environmental Quality in Rapidly Developing Regions. Kleppel GS, DeVoe MR, Rawson MV (Eds.), Springer, New York, NY, 69–89 (2006).

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 Nanomedicine.

Blog post

Luntz S. Oceans Endure on Super-Earths [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/oceans-last-super-earths/.

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. USDA Proposal for Handling Conversions in ADPE Procurements. 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

Pookcharoen S. Metacognitive online reading strategies among Thai EFL university students. (2009).

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

Williams J. A Comedian’s Embroidered Life. New York Times, C4 (2016).

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	Nanomedicine
Abbreviation	Nanomedicine (Lond.)
ISSN (print)	1743-5889
ISSN (online)	1748-6963
Scope	Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering General Materials Science Medicine (miscellaneous) Development