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

Pleasants S (2014) Epidemiology: a moving target. Nature 515:S2-3

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu L, Chen H (2014) Logarithm conformal mapping brings the cloaking effect. Sci Rep 4:6862

A journal article with 3 authors

Biteau B, Labarre J, Toledano MB (2003) ATP-dependent reduction of cysteine-sulphinic acid by S. cerevisiae sulphiredoxin. Nature 425:980–984

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rifkin SA, Houle D, Kim J, White KP (2005) A mutation accumulation assay reveals a broad capacity for rapid evolution of gene expression. Nature 438:220–223

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Esch GW (2015) Ecological Parasitology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Krasińska M (2013) European Bison: The Nature Monograph, 2nd ed. 2013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Krum S, Hevelingen WV, Kero B, et al (2013) Scaling Puppet. In: Hevelingen WV, Kero B, Turnbull J, McCune J (eds) Pro Puppet: The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad Profitably. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 97–140

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

Andrew E (2014) Bizarre Deformed “Unicorn” Found In Slovenia. 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 (1977) NASA Report May Overstate the Economic Benefits of Research and Development Spending. 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

Shimizu K (2013) The Procurement System of the Japanese Space Agency: Present Challenges, Future Promise. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Crow K (2002) Mystery of the Missing Tenants. New York Times 146

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
Scope

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