How to format your references using the Journal of Micro and Nano-Manufacturing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Micro and Nano-Manufacturing. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

[1]

Chan, M. A., 2015, “PLANETARY SCIENCE. The Martian Lake Chronicles,” Science, 350(6257), p. 167.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hoppler, S., and Wheeler, G. N., 2015, “DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. It’s about Time for Neural Crest,” Science, 348(6241), pp. 1316–1317.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Groisman, A., Enzelberger, M., and Quake, S. R., 2003, “Microfluidic Memory and Control Devices,” Science, 300(5621), pp. 955–958.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Park, D.-H., Han, C. J., Shul, Y.-G., and Choy, J.-H., 2014, “Avatar DNA Nanohybrid System in Chip-on-a-Phone,” Sci. Rep., 4, p. 4879.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bartlett, K., 2016, The Experience of History, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Renandya, W. A., and Widodo, H. P., eds., 2016, English Language Teaching Today: Linking Theory and Practice, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Levine, S. R., Haley, E. C., and Lyden, P. D., 2015, “Pilot and Preliminary Studies of Thrombolytic Therapy for Stroke,” Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Stroke, P.D. Lyden, ed., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 81–94.

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 Journal of Micro and Nano-Manufacturing.

Blog post

[1]

Taub, B., 2016, “Scientist Who Throws Cane Toad Sausages Out Of Helicopters Wins Top Award,” IFLScience.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 1998, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership and Effective Public/Private Cooperation Needed to Avoid Major Disruptions, T-AIMD-98-101, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Vega Aguirre, J. C., 2008, “Study of Small Business Leadership as a Result of the North American Free Trade Agreement,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix.

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

[1]

Poniewozik, J., and Hale, M., 2017, “Ahead of Its Time? Let’s Look Back,” New York Times, p. AR29.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Micro and Nano-Manufacturing
Abbreviation	J. Micro Nanomanuf.
ISSN (print)	2166-0468
ISSN (online)	2166-0476
Scope