How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on 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]

J. Marx, “ALZHEIMER’S CONGRESS: Drug Shows Promise for Advanced Disease,” Science, vol. 289, no. 5478, pp. 375b–7b, Jul. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.-M. Chou and Y.-C. Cheng, “An exonucleolytic activity of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease on 3’ mispaired DNA,” Nature, vol. 415, no. 6872, pp. 655–659, Feb. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Guiteras, J. Levinsohn, and A. M. Mobarak, “Sanitation subsidies. Encouraging sanitation investment in the developing world: a cluster-randomized trial,” Science, vol. 348, no. 6237, pp. 903–906, May 2015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Osaka, K. Yaoi, T. Minamoto, and N. Osaka, “When do negative and positive emotions modulate working memory performance?,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 1375, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Chemical Transportation Safety, Security, and Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.

An edited book

[1]

U. Farooq, Tree-based Heterogeneous FPGA Architectures: Application Specific Exploration and Optimization. New York, NY: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.-C. Falmagne and C. Doble, “Abstract Axioms and their Representations,” in On Meaningful Scientific Laws, C. Doble, Ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015, pp. 47–57.

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 IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “New Layer of Rock Discovered in Earth’s Mantle,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/insanely-stiff-layer-rock-discovered-earths-mantle/

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, “Small Computers in the Federal Government: Management Is Needed To Realize Potential and Prevent Problems,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, AFMD-83-36, Mar. 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Wang, “Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Investigation of the Coyote Mountain Shear Zone,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2017.

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]

K. Crow, “It’s Still Audrey’s College, Even If Her Name Is Gone,” New York Times, p. 146, Oct. 06, 2002.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Nanotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1536-125X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering