How to format your references using the IET Nanobiotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IET Nanobiotechnology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Endo, M.: ‘Obituary: Setsuro Ebashi (1922-2006)’Nature, 2006, 442, (7106), p. 996.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jallepalli, P.V., Pellman, D.: ‘Cell biology. Aneuploidy in the balance’Science, 2007, 317, (5840), pp. 904–905.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bylander, J., Duty, T., Delsing, P.: ‘Current measurement by real-time counting of single electrons’Nature, 2005, 434, (7031), pp. 361–364.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Currat, M., Excoffier, L., Maddison, W., et al.: ‘Comment on “Ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM, a brain size determinant in Homo sapiens” and “Microcephalin, a gene regulating brain size, continues to evolve adaptively in humans”’Science, 2006, 313, (5784), pp. 172; author reply 172.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jazar, R.N.: ‘Advanced Dynamics’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011)

An edited book

Bella, S.D.: ‘The Science of the Individual: Leibniz’s Ontology of Individual Substance’ (Springer Netherlands, 2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Leigh, H.: ‘Common Reasons for Psychiatric Consultation’, in Leigh, H., Streltzer, J. (Eds.): ‘Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry’ (Springer International Publishing, 2015), pp. 27–38

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 IET Nanobiotechnology.

Blog post

Evans, K.: ‘Your Pet Is Actually A Sneaky Master Of Doggie Deception’, accessed October 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: ‘Commercial Aviation: Costs and Major Factors Influencing Infrastructure Changes at U.S. Airports to Accomodate the New A380 Aircraft’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Migues, K.P.: ‘A Qualitative Exploration of Retention of Experienced Teachers: Why Do They Stay?’. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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

Wagner, J.: ‘Mets Fall Again, and Weigh Options’New York Times, 2017, p. D2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	IET Nanobiotechnology
Abbreviation	IET Nanobiotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1751-8741
Scope	Biotechnology Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials