How to format your references using the Nano Energy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nano Energy. 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]

P. Parham, Immunology. NK cells lose their inhibition, Science 305 (2004) 786–787.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.R. Bellwood, T.P. Hughes, Regional-scale assembly rules and biodiversity of coral reefs, Science 292 (2001) 1532–1535.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Huang, M. Bai, L. Wang, General and facile surface functionalization of hydrophobic nanocrystals with poly(amino acid) for cell luminescence imaging, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2023.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.J. Lawler, K. Fujita, J. Lee, A.R. Schmidt, Y. Kohsaka, C.K. Kim, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, J.C. Davis, J.P. Sethna, E.-A. Kim, Intra-unit-cell electronic nematicity of the high-T(c) copper-oxide pseudogap states, Nature 466 (2010) 347–351.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Moreau, Tools for Signal Compression, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

G. Rudolph, Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics: Part I. Manifolds, Lie Groups and Hamiltonian Systems, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Sang, Wild Vistas: Progress in Computational Approaches to ‘Viewshed’ Analysis, in: S.J. Carver, S. Fritz (Eds.), Mapping Wilderness: Concepts, Techniques and Applications, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2016: pp. 69–87.

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 Nano Energy.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, The Fastest Accelerating Organism on Earth is a Fungus!, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fastest-accelerating-organism-earth-fungus/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, U.S. Science and Engineering Base: A Synthesis of Concerns About Budget and Policy Development, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Barnett, Understanding gender differences in teachers’ level of insight as it relates to ADHD, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 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]

J. Williams, Alcoholism in America, New York Times (2017) BR4.

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	Nano Energy
Abbreviation	Nano Energy
ISSN (print)	2211-2855
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Electrical and Electronic Engineering General Materials Science