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

Lichtenthaler SF (2012) Cell biology. Sheddase gets guidance. Science 335:179–180

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee S, Feldstein SB (2013) Detecting ozone- and greenhouse gas-driven wind trends with observational data. Science 339:563–567

A journal article with 3 authors

Yin Y, Manoury B, Fåhraeus R (2003) Self-inhibition of synthesis and antigen presentation by Epstein-Barr virus-encoded EBNA1. Science 301:1371–1374

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Skedung L, Arvidsson M, Chung JY, et al (2013) Feeling small: exploring the tactile perception limits. Sci Rep 3:2617

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fredriksson H, Åkerlind U (2012) Solidification and Crystallization Processing in Metals and Alloys. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Johnston RJ, Rolfe J, Rosenberger RS, Brouwer R (2015) Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values: A Guide for Researchers and Practitioners. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Keller JK, Smith CR (2014) Landscape Sampling Areas Versus Actual Location of Taxonomic Survey. In: Smith CR (ed) Improving GIS-based Wildlife-Habitat Analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 57–68

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

Luntz S (2015) Artificial Photosynthesis Yields Valuable Chemicals. 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 (1984) Assessment of Audits of Bilingual Education Grants in Texas by U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General. 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

Wright EA (2012) Assessing Leadership Behaviors and Demographic Characteristics of Project Managers Associated Through LinkedIn. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University

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

Kelly M (1992) Clinton Delays Trip To Work, Pack Up And Fill More Jobs. New York Times A10

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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