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]

Neylon C 2012 Science publishing: Open access must enable open use Nature 492 348–9

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hey T and Trefethen A E 2005 Cyberinfrastructure for e-Science Science 308 817–21

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ryckman J D, Jiao Y and Weiss S M 2013 Three-dimensional patterning and morphological control of porous nanomaterials by gray-scale direct imprinting Sci. Rep. 3 1502

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

He Y, Hashimoto M, Song D, Chen S-D, He J, Vishik I M, Moritz B, Lee D-H, Nagaosa N, Zaanen J, Devereaux T P, Yoshida Y, Eisaki H, Lu D H and Shen Z-X 2018 Rapid change of superconductivity and electron-phonon coupling through critical doping in Bi-2212 Science 362 62–5

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Borisenko V E and Ossicini S 2012 What is What in the Nanoworld (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Ratha C 2016 SBAs and EMQs for MRCOG II: Addressing the New Exam Format ed J Gupta (New Delhi: Springer India)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Overmann J 2006 Principles of Enrichment, Isolation, Cultivation and Preservation of Prokaryotes The Prokaryotes: Volume 1: Symbiotic associations, Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology ed M Dworkin, S Falkow, E Rosenberg, K-H Schleifer and E Stackebrandt (New York, NY: Springer) pp 80–136

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 How To Light A Match With A Rubber Band 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 2000 College Tuition and Fees: Changes in the 1995-96 to 1999-2000 Period Compared With Median Household Income (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]

Carlson L 2010 From Albéniz to Arbós: The orchestration of “Iberia” 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]

Marx L 2012 John Blair, Beto Sutter New York Times ST18

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