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

Hunt JH (2003) Ecology. Cryptic herbivores of the rainforest canopy. Science 300:916–917

A journal article with 2 authors

Suzuki Y, Nijhout HF (2006) Evolution of a polyphenism by genetic accommodation. Science 311:650–652

A journal article with 3 authors

Roopnarine PD, Angielczyk KD, Hertog R (2006) Comment on “Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates.” Science 314:925; author reply 925

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ni CY, Murphy MP, Golde TE, Carpenter G (2001) gamma -Secretase cleavage and nuclear localization of ErbB-4 receptor tyrosine kinase. Science 294:2179–2181

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hollins C (2012) Basic Guide to Anatomy and Physiology for Dental Care Professionals. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Chahl JS, Jain LC, Mizutani A, Sato-Ilic M (2007) Innovations in Intelligent Machines - 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gruen A, Broadley MR, Buchner P, Hawkesford MJ (2014) Efficient Mineral Nutrition: Genetic Improvement of Phosphate Uptake and Use Efficiency in Crops. In: Hawkesford MJ, Kopriva S, De Kok LJ (eds) Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants: Concepts and Approaches. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 93–132

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

Hamilton K (2016) China Completes World’s Largest Radio Telescope – Raising Hopes Of Finding New Worlds And Alien Life. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-completes-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-raising-hopes-of-finding-new-worlds-and-alien-life/. 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 (2000) Mass Transit: Implementation of FTA’s New Starts Evaluation Process and FY 2001 Funding Proposals. 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

Burns KN (2017) Impact of Cognitive Tasks on Gait Parameters in Collegiate Athletes. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L (2005) Justices Refuse to Hear Case Of Condemned Virginia Man. New York Times A25

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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