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

Sternberg PW (2004) Developmental biology. A pattern of precision. Science 303:637–638

A journal article with 2 authors

Colton RJ, Russell JN Jr (2003) Counterterrorism. Making the world a safer place. Science 299:1324–1325

A journal article with 3 authors

Bloxham J, Zatman S, Dumberry M (2002) The origin of geomagnetic jerks. Nature 420:65–68

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gong Y, Han T, Yin X, et al (2014) Prevalence of depressive symptoms and work-related risk factors among nurses in public hospitals in southern China: a cross-sectional study. Sci Rep 4:7109

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alacoque JC (2012) Direct Eigen Control for Induction Machines and Synchronous Motors. A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Napier S, Bingham M (2009) Transporters as Targets for Drugs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Knafl GJ, Ding K (2016) Adaptive Regression Modeling of Multivariate Continuous Outcomes. In: Ding K (ed) Adaptive Regression for Modeling Nonlinear Relationships. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 63–108

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 D (2015) Why Does Coffee Make You Poop? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-does-coffee-make-you-poop/. 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 (1987) Education’s Chapter 1 and 2 Programs and Local Dropout Prevention and Reentry Programs. 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

Ashbran MC (2011) Examining student learning in a physics pedagogical content knowledge course. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Feeney K (2007) Cross-Cultural Confections. New York Times NJ6

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