How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Nanoscience citation style

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

[1]

Hirth G. Earth science: Missing link in mantle dynamics. Nature. 2014;507(7490):42–43.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kempermann G, Neumann H. Neuroscience. Microglia: the enemy within? Science. 2003;302(5651):1689–1690.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fashami MS, Atulasimha J, Bandyopadhyay S. Energy dissipation and error probability in fault-tolerant binary switching. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Asner GP, Knapp DE, Broadbent EN, et al. Selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon. Science. 2005;310(5747):480–482.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Carroll JM, Bowyer-Crane C, Duff FJ, et al. Developing Language and Literacy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Bembenik R, Skonieczny Ł, Rybiński H, et al., editors. Intelligent Tools for Building a Scientific Information Platform: From Research to Implementation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Uslaner EM. Who Do You Trust? In: Shockley E, Neal TMS, PytlikZillig LM, et al., editors. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Trust: Towards Theoretical and Methodological Integration. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 71–83.

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 Journal of Experimental Nanoscience.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Three-Person IVF: Science Shows Ethical Questions Remain Unanswered [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/three-person-ivf-science-shows-ethical-questions-remain-unanswered/.

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. Airline Service: Changes at Major Montana Airports Since Deregulation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989. Report No.: RCED-89-141FS. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Winton TW. Student and Teacher Perceptions of Standards-based Grading and Student Performance [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2015.

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]

Kelly M. Clinton Set for a Vacation Of Sports and Lots of Talk. New York Times. 1992 Dec 28;D8.

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	Journal of Experimental Nanoscience
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Nanosci.
ISSN (print)	1745-8080
ISSN (online)	1745-8099
Scope	Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering General Materials Science