How to format your references using the Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics. 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

Yutzey KE (2014) Cardiovascular biology: Switched at birth. Nature 509:572–573

A journal article with 2 authors

Becker H, Walker RJ (2003) Efficient mixing of the solar nebula from uniform Mo isotopic composition of meteorites. Nature 425:152–155

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang Z, White PS, Brookhart M (2010) Ligand exchanges and selective catalytic hydrogenation in molecular single crystals. Nature 465:598–601

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sánchez-Lavega A, Pérez-Hoyos S, Rojas JF, et al (2003) A strong decrease in Saturn’s equatorial jet at cloud level. Nature 423:623–625

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xiong K (2014) Resource Optimization and Security for Cloud Services. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, USA

An edited book

Dössel O, Schlegel WC (2009) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/1 Radiation Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Szende A, Janssen B (2014) Cross-Country Analysis of EQ-5D Data. In: Szende A, Janssen B, Cabases J (eds) Self-Reported Population Health: An International Perspective based on EQ-5D. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 31–36

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-Bio Robotics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) The Omega-Shaped Jet Stream Responsible for Europe’s Heatwave. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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

Government Accountability Office (1982) Survey To Identify Models Used by Executive Agencies in the Policymaking Process. 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

Duggimpudi MB (2017) Object Ranking Algorithms for Improved Decision Making. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Longman J (2014) Formula for Upset: Arithmetic Trumps Art. New York Times B14

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-Bio Robotics
Abbreviation	J. Microbio Robot.
ISSN (print)	2194-6418
ISSN (online)	2194-6426
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering General Materials Science