For book citation in Nature communications

Tsing Bohu

Dear Manager,
From Nature communications:
For book citations, the publisher and city of publication are required. Example: Jones, R. A. L. Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life Ch. 3 (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2004).
I used the style of Nature Communications in zotero. However, no city information came out. The reference was ...(Oxford Univ. Press, 2004).
Please help to fix this problem. Thanks a lot.
Regards

adamsmith

Where do you get the required citation format for books from? I couldn't find anything about this on the Nature or the Nature Communications website.

jamesnicholas

It seems to be in the "References" section of this page that details the required book citation style for Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/submit/how-to-submit

adamsmith

Ah someone didn't see or find this, thanks. Will adjust the style.

Tsing Bohu

Thanks jamesnicholas

Tsing Bohu

To adamsmith,
So the problem has been fixed? When and how can I use the right format for book citation in nature communications?

damnation

Nature comms is a dependent style of Nature which following their guidelines (https://www.nature.com/srep/publish/guidelines#references) doesn't want the city:
Smith, J. Syntax of referencing in How to reference books (ed. Smith, S.) 180-181 (Macmillan, 2013).

Should we make an independent style?

bwiernik

All the Nature journals state they use “standard Nature style”, and each is inconsistent about whether the publisher location is included or excluded articles (e.g., here is an example in Nature Communications without publisher cities https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05517-6). Not including the cities is more common across all journals.

It seems that including the cities is not strictly required, and the discrepancy across journals’ guidelines an oversight. I suggest we leave it the same or ask the publisher which they prefer.

adamsmith

Thanks for looking into this -- I agree with bwiernik that given the current ambiguity we'll probably not want to change this without a clear indication. Does anyone have any contact at the nature journals?