How to format your references using the Nanomedicine citation style

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

Service RF. ELECTRONIC OPTICS: Organic Lasers Promise New Lease on Light. Science 289(5479), 519–521 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson A, Kanamarlapudi V. The regions within the N-terminus critical for human glucagon like peptide-1 receptor (hGLP-1R) cell surface expression. Sci. Rep. 4, 7410 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

Gregg JW, Jones CG, Dawson TE. Urbanization effects on tree growth in the vicinity of New York City. Nature 424(6945), 183–187 (2003).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Meyer WK, Jamison J, Richter R et al. Ancient convergent losses of Paraoxonase 1 yield potential risks for modern marine mammals. Science 361(6402), 591–594 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nemethy L. Business Exit Planning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011).

An edited book

Erdmann VA, Barciszewski J (Eds.). RNA Technologies and Their Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010).

A chapter in an edited book

Hong W, Wang H. Branching Structures Within Random Walks and Their Applications. In: Branching Processes and Their Applications. del Puerto IM, González M, Gutiérrez C, et al. (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 57–73 (2016).

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 Nanomedicine.

Blog post

Carpineti A. ‘New Evidence That The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than We Expected’ (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-evidence-that-the-universe-is-expanding-faster-than-we-expected/.

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. NASA: Preliminary Observations on Major Acquisition Projects and Management Challenges, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2016).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chhun S. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, (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

Grynbaum MM. Another Press Secretary Profile, (2017).

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	Nanomedicine
Abbreviation	Nanomedicine (Lond.)
ISSN (print)	1743-5889
ISSN (online)	1748-6963
Scope	Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering General Materials Science Medicine (miscellaneous) Development