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Please try to make links to the articles with the DOI (digital object identifier) because that gives a uniform and structured access for everyone to the papers. </p><p>All papers get a DOI - a unique number like a bar code in a supermarket. All DOIs are registered by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.doi.org/">www.doi.org</a> and in the reference list you can add links like <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1039/b504435a">https://doi.org/10.1039/b504435a</a> so people will be able to find it no matter how the homepage of the journal or their own library changes. </p><p>The <a href="#references"> References</a> section has an example reference. </p><p>Add links to the Wikipedia whenever possible - and for the beginning I will rely extensively on Wikipedia's pages on the subjects, simply referring to these. This textbook could be simply a gathering of Wikipedia pages, but an encyclopedia entry is brief, and for a handbook it is preferable to have more in-depth material with examples and the necessary formulas. So, some information in this textbook will be very much like the Wikipedia entries and we might not need to write it in the book but can simply refer to Wikipedia, but the hope is that this will be more a text book as is the intention with Wikibooks. </p><p>Multiple references, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes" class="extiw" title="w:Help:Footnotes">w:Help:Footnotes</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Links">Links</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&veaction=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Links" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section's source code: Links"><span>edit source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There's a shorthand way to make links to Wikipedia from Wikibooks: [[w:Quantum_tunneling|Wikipedia on Quantum Tunneling]] gives the link <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunneling" class="extiw" title="w:Quantum tunneling"> Wikipedia on Quantum Tunneling</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Media">Media</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&veaction=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Media" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section's source code: Media"><span>edit source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="plainlinks noprint messagebox notice" style="width:250px; float:right; clear:right; margin:0px; margin-left:10px;"> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align:middle;"><td style="padding:0.1em; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; width:45px; border:none;"> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></td> <td style="color:black; text-align:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0.5em; padding-left:0em; border:none;"> <p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="commons:">Wikimedia Commons</a> has media related to: <i><b><a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology">Nanotechnology</a></b></i> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&veaction=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: History" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section's source code: History"><span>edit source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The book was started by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kristian.molhave.dk">Kristian Molhave </a><a href="/wiki/User:KristianMolhave" title="User:KristianMolhave">(wiki user page)</a> 13. Apr. 2006. Initially it was named <i>Nanowiki</i>, and later changed to <a href="/wiki/Nanotechnology" title="Nanotechnology">Nanotechnology</a>. Kristian is currently slowly uploading material to the book and looking for people who would like to contribute that can and substantial material to specific sections under the GNU license. I hope we can make an 'editorial panel' of people each keeping an eye on and updating specific sections. </p><p>The Summer 2008 Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) eStudies Nanotechnology students will be adding to the content of this Wikibook. From June-Aug 2008 there will be content additions with references that will add to this great resource. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Authors_and_Editors">Authors and Editors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&veaction=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Authors and Editors" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section's source code: Authors and Editors"><span>edit source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Opensource Handbook on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology was started by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kristian.molhave.dk">Kristian Molhave</a><a href="/wiki/User:KristianMolhave" title="User:KristianMolhave">(wiki user page)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editors">Editors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&veaction=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Editors" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section's source code: Editors"><span>edit source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>An editorial board is currently being organized.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Support_and_Acknowledgments">Support and Acknowledgments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&veaction=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Support and Acknowledgments" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section's source code: Support and Acknowledgments"><span>edit source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Starting this book is supported by the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://forsk.dk/portal/page/pr04/FIST/FORSIDE/DIVERSE_SIDER/DANISH_RESEARCH_AGENCY">Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation</a> through Kristian Mølhave's talent project ’<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kristian.molhave.dk/namic">NAMIC</a>’ No. 26-04-0258. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="How_to_Reference_this_Book">How to Reference this Book</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&veaction=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: How to Reference this Book" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanotechnology/About&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section's source code: How to Reference this Book"><span>edit source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>I am not currently sure how work on wikibooks or wikipedia can be referenced reliably in published literature. </p><p>Three suggestions: </p><p>1) Reference the references from the wikibook. Wikibooks are not intended to be the publication channel for new results, but should be based on published and accepted information with references and these references can be used. But this of course does not give credit to the book, so I recommend then adding an acknowledgement about the book to give it PR and credit. </p><p>2) Reference the book with a specific page and date - the previous versions of the pages are all available in the history pane and can easily be accessed by future users. You can also hit "permanent version" on the left side of the webpage (it is under "toolbox"). That sends you specifically to the selected version of the wikipage with a link to it that will never change. </p><p>3) Reference the PDF version and its version number. 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