How to format your references using the Nanoscience Methods citation style

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

[1]

Kyriacou CP. Physiology. Unraveling traveling. Science. 2009;325(5948):1629–1630.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Li L, Wang Y. What drives the aerosol distribution in Guangdong--the most developed province in Southern China? Sci Rep. 2014;4:5972.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schön JH, Kloc C, Batlogg B. Superconductivity in molecular crystals induced by charge injection. Nature. 2000;406(6797):702–704.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Bastien GJ, Schepens B, Willems PA, et al. Energetics of load carrying in Nepalese porters. Science. 2005;308(5729):1755.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

de Almeida JPM, Maunder EAW. Equilibrium Finite Element Formulations. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Sommaruga G, Strahm T, editors. Turing’s Revolution: The Impact of His Ideas about Computability. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zampieri M, Lapshinova-Koltunski E. Investigating Genre and Method Variation in Translation Using Text Classification. In: Král P, Matoušek V, editors. Text, Speech, and Dialogue: 18th International Conference, TSD 2015, Pilsen,Czech Republic, September 14-17, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 41–50.

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 Nanoscience Methods.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Therapy Dogs Are Helping Kids With Cancer [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/therapy-dogs-are-helping-kids-cancer/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Test and Evaluation: DOD Has Been Slow In Improving Testing of Software-Intensive Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993. Report No.: NSIAD-93-198. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Horta G. The potential of the Eurozone crisis to mobilize extreme right support in Spain, Portugal, and Italy [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2013.

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

[1]

Kurdewan J. Bill Cunningham, Unpublished. New York Times. 2016 Dec 16;ST4.

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	Nanoscience Methods
ISSN (online)	2164-2311
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