A brief survey of chemical synthesis methods for SrTiO(3) nanoparticle fabrication is presented. The principal features of microwave, mechano-chemical, coprecipitation, sol-gel, solvothermal and template methods as well as the limits of their application are described. Special attention was paid to nominally pure and transition metals doped SrTiO(3) nanoparticles of 100-12 nm size, prepared by citrate method, their characterization, and dependence of lattice constant and optical band gap on particle size. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.