How to format your references using the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Beilstein Journal of 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

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Hauser, M. Nature 2005, 437, 60–63

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Gaensler, B. M.; Frail, D. A. Nature 2000, 406, 158–160

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Husale, S.; Persson, H. H. J.; Sahin, O. Nature 2009, 462, 1075–1078

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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van den Berg, B.; Black, P. N.; Clemons, W. M., Jr; Rapoport, T. A. Science 2004, 304, 1506–1509

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Zhang, W.; Shmulevich, I.; Astola, J. Microarray Quality Control; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005

An edited book

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The Influence of Genetics on Contemporary Thinking; Fagot-Largeault, A., Rahman, S., Torres, J. M., Eds.; Logic, Epistemology, and The Unity of Science; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2007; Vol. 6

A chapter in an edited book

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Pelton, J. N.; Singh, I. B. Cybersecurity for Smart Phones, Mobile Apps, and “The Cloud.” In Digital Defense: A Cybersecurity Primer; Singh, I. B., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp 83–101

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 Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology.

Blog post

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Hale, T. DNA Reveals The Genetic History Of The Black Death Bacteria https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dna-reveals-the-genetic-history-of-the-black-death-bacteria-/ (accessed Oct 30, 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

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Government Accountability Office. Opportunities for Improving Computerized Civilian Payroll Processing Operations; FGMSD-75-15; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1975

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

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Clovis, D. J. The Thayer Valve and Its Effect on a Generation and Beyond. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010

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

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Saslow, L. Suffolk and Nassau Fight Voting Machine Change. New York Times. October 15, 2006, p 14LI2

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	Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
ISSN (print)	2190-4286
Scope