How to format your references using the Nanotechnology citation style

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

Browning J 2009 Recession Watch: Cut costs and sell what you can Nature 457 961–2

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ronald P C and Beutler B 2010 Plant and animal sensors of conserved microbial signatures Science 330 1061–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Su D, Dou S and Wang G 2014 Single crystalline Co3O4 nanocrystals exposed with different crystal planes for Li-O2 batteries Sci. Rep. 4 5767

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Kural C, Kim H, Syed S, Goshima G, Gelfand V I and Selvin P R 2005 Kinesin and dynein move a peroxisome in vivo: a tug-of-war or coordinated movement? Science 308 1469–72

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rich P 2011 Understanding, Assessing, and Rehabilitating Juvenile Sexual Offenders (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Jackson M B, Mookherjee S and Hamlin N P 2015 The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Qin B 2015 Efficient Queries Evaluation on Block Independent Disjoint Probabilistic Databases Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 20th International Conference, DASFAA 2015, Hanoi, Vietnam, April 20-23, 2015, Proceedings, Part II Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed M Renz, C Shahabi, X Zhou and M A Cheema (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 74–88

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 Nanotechnology.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A 2016 Black Hole Left Almost “Naked” After Galaxy Collision IFLScience

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 1993 Air Traffic Control: Improvements Needed In FAA’s Management of Acquisitions (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Paik Y 2012 Redefining multidisciplinary teams: An institutional approach Doctoral dissertation (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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]

Protess B and Goldstein M 2016 Justices Asked to Clarify ‘Benefit’ in Insider Trading New York Times B1

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	Nanotechnology
Abbreviation	Nanotechnology
ISSN (print)	0957-4484
ISSN (online)	1361-6528
Scope	Bioengineering General Chemistry Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science