How to format your references using the Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Rubinsztein DC (2006) The roles of intracellular protein-degradation pathways in neurodegeneration. Nature 443:780–786

A journal article with 2 authors

Flatt T, Promislow DEL (2007) Physiology. Still pondering an age-old question. Science 318:1255–1256

A journal article with 3 authors

Zou H, Zindler A, Niu Y (2002) Constraints on melt movement beneath the East Pacific Rise from 230Th-238U disequilibrium. Science 295:107–110

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hurley SM, Dermota TE, Hydutsky DP, Castleman AW Jr (2002) Dynamics of hydrogen bromide dissolution in the ground and excited states. Science 298:202–204

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maksoud MA (2017) Quick Reference to Dental Implant Surgery. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Moreira AL, Saqi A (2015) Diagnosing Non-small Cell Carcinoma in Small Biopsy and Cytology. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Piña B, Boronat S, Casado M, Olivares A (2009) Recombinant Yeast Assays and Gene Expression Assays for the Analysis of Endocrine Disruption. In: Barceló D, Hansen P-D (eds) Biosensors for Environmental Monitoring of Aquatic Systems: Bioanalytical and Chemical Methods for Endocrine Disruptors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 69–113

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 for Environmental Engineering.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) This Cricket Was Infested By “Mind Controlling” Worms. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2006) No Child Left Behind Act: States Face Challenges Measuring Academic Growth That Education’s Initiatives May Help Address. 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

Rajagopal S (2012) Assessing water management impacts of climate change for a semi-arid watershed in the southwestern US. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Qiu L (2017) Do More Guns Really Mean Fewer Gun Murders? Not Exactly. New York Times A15

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 for Environmental Engineering
Abbreviation	Nanotechnol. Environ. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2365-6379
ISSN (online)	2365-6387
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