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

Buzsáki G. The structure of consciousness. Nature 446(7133), 267 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickware P, Smaglik P. Labs and companies seek their niches as work continues after the draft. Nature 409(6822), 961–963 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubash NK, Fleurbaey M, Kartha S. Climate policy. Political implications of data presentation. Science 345(6192), 36–37 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Boon J-P, Casti J, Djerassi C et al. A concrete example. Nature 444(7115), 122 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sab K, Lebée A. Homogenization of Heterogeneous Thin and Thick Plates. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2015).

An edited book

Stock O, Zancanaro M (Eds.). PEACH - Intelligent Interfaces for Museum Visits. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007).

A chapter in an edited book

Levin ED, Hall BJ, Rezvani AH. Heterogeneity Across Brain Regions and Neurotransmitter Interactions with Nicotinic Effects on Memory Function. In: The Neurobiology and Genetics of Nicotine and Tobacco. Balfour DJK, Munafò MR (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 87–101 (2015).

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

Carpineti C. ‘“Moore’s Law” For Carbon Emissions Could Mean The End Of Climate Change’ (2017).

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. Opportunities for Improving Federally Assisted Manpower Programs Identified as a Result of Review in the Atlanta, Georgia, Area, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1972).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bobadilla J. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, (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

Tomasky M. Single Payer or Bust?, (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

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