How to format your references using the Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry citation style

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

Epstein, J.M.: Modelling to contain pandemics. Nature. 460, 687 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hulleman, C.S., Harackiewicz, J.M.: Promoting interest and performance in high school science classes. Science. 326, 1410–1412 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Renault, L., Guibert, B., Cherfils, J.: Structural snapshots of the mechanism and inhibition of a guanine nucleotide exchange factor. Nature. 426, 525–530 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, Q., Chen, M., Perc, M., Iqbal, A., Abbott, D.: Effects of adaptive degrees of trust on coevolution of quantum strategies on scale-free networks. Sci. Rep. 3, 2949 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Green, S.D.: Making Sense of Construction Improvement. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2011)

An edited book

Allen, G., Nabrzyski, J., Seidel, E., Albada, G.D. van, Dongarra, J., Sloot, P.M.A. eds: Computational Science – ICCS 2009: 9th International Conference Baton Rouge, LA, USA, May 25-27, 2009 Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Lesiv, M., Bun, A., Jonas, M.: Analysis of change in relative uncertainty in GHG emissions from stationary sources for the EU 15. In: Ometto, J.P., Bun, R., Jonas, M., and Nahorski, Z. (eds.) Uncertainties in Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Expanding Our Perspective. pp. 55–68. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 Nanostructure in Chemistry.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Bacterial Infection Turns Amoebas Into Farmers, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bacterial-infection-turns-amoebas-farmers/

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: Federal Program To Strengthen Developing Institutions of Higher Education Lacks Direction. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1979)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lemheney, A.J.: Design and development of virtual reality simulation for teaching high-risk low-volume problem-prone office-based medical emergencies, (2014)

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

Schmidt, M.S.: Trump Appealed to Comey to Halt Inquiry Into Aide, (2017)

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 Nanostructure in Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Nanostructure Chem.
ISSN (print)	2008-9244
ISSN (online)	2193-8865
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