How to format your references using the Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and 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	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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Service R F 2013 Solar energy. Performance of nanowire solar cells on the rise Science 339 263

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

O’Neill L A J and Hardie D G 2013 Metabolism of inflammation limited by AMPK and pseudo-starvation Nature 493 346–55

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Albert R, Jeong H and Barabasi A L 2000 Error and attack tolerance of complex networks Nature 406 378–82

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Hassey R, Swain E J, Hammer N I, Venkataraman D and Barnes M D 2006 Probing the chiroptical response of a single molecule Science 314 1437–9

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Teodorescu P, Stănescu N-D and Pandrea N 2013 Numerical Analysis with Applications in Mechanics and Engineering (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Trajkovik V and Anastas M 2014 ICT Innovations 2013: ICT Innovations and Education vol 231 (Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Mucci C, Rossi D, Campi F, Ciccarelli L, Pizzotti M, Perugini L, Vanzolini L, De Marco T and Innocenti M 2009 The Dream Digital Signal Processor Dynamic System Reconfiguration in Heterogeneous Platforms: The MORPHEUS Approach Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ed N S Voros, A Rosti and M Hübner (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 49–61

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 Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

Blog post

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Carpineti A 2016 Gravitational Wave Observatories Ready To Start Hunting Again After Upgrade 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 1991 Information Resources: HCFA Must Better Justify Further Data Center Expansion (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]

Wilson L A 2014 An exploratory study of the impact of school-wide positive behavior support on bullying Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: 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

[1]

Grynbaum M M and Rogers K 2017 Army-McCarthy Hearings. Anita Hill. Comey Testimony New York Times A17

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	Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
ISSN (online)	2043-6262
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