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
    edited April 2, 2019
    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
    edited April 2, 2019
    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?

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