How to format your references using the Nanomaterials citation style

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

Gibson, G. Cancer: Directions for the Drivers. Nature 2014, 512, 31–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Patel, S.; Cone, R.D. Neuroscience: A Cellular Basis for the Munchies. Nature 2015, 519, 38–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mueller, K.; Hough, S.E.; Bilham, R. Analysing the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes with Recent Instrumentally Recorded Aftershocks. Nature 2004, 429, 284–288.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Herr, A.J.; Jensen, M.B.; Dalmay, T.; Baulcombe, D.C. RNA Polymerase IV Directs Silencing of Endogenous DNA. Science 2005, 308, 118–120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anstädt, T.; Keller, I.; Lutz, H. Intelligente Videoanalyse; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2010; ISBN 9783527632961.

An edited book

Ziemann, O. POF Handbook: Optical Short Range Transmission Systems; Krauser, J., Zamzow, P.E., Daum, W., Eds.; Second edition.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; ISBN 9783540766285.

A chapter in an edited book

Kirk, W.; Shahzad, N. Ultrametric Spaces. In Fixed Point Theory in Distance Spaces; Shahzad, N., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 25–36 ISBN 9783319109268.

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 Nanomaterials.

Blog post

Hale, T. A Lost Roman City Has Been Discovered in Southern France (accessed on 30 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 Quality Management: Scoping Study; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1990;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wells, J.P. A Case Study of Educators’ Perceptions of the Effects of High -Stakes Testing and Accountability Policies on High- and Low-Poverty Middle Schools in a Maryland School District. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2010.

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

Greenhouse, L. Rights of Unions and Nonmembers Vie at Court. New York Times 2007, A24.

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	Nanomaterials
Abbreviation	Nanomaterials (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2079-4991
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