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

Morris M (2006) Astronomy. Galactic prominences on the rise. Science 314:70–71

A journal article with 2 authors

Stelter P, Ulrich HD (2003) Control of spontaneous and damage-induced mutagenesis by SUMO and ubiquitin conjugation. Nature 425:188–191

A journal article with 3 authors

Church JA, White NJ, Arblaster JM (2005) Significant decadal-scale impact of volcanic eruptions on sea level and ocean heat content. Nature 438:74–77

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Herd CDK, Blinova A, Simkus DN, et al (2011) Origin and evolution of prebiotic organic matter as inferred from the Tagish Lake meteorite. Science 332:1304–1307

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michael E, Gillian H, Stefan K, Alex L (2012) Gramsci. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Dirckinck-Holmfeld L, Hodgson V, McConnell D (2012) Exploring the Theory, Pedagogy and Practice of Networked Learning. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Park D, Cho S, Park J (2009) The Realization of Greenhouse Monitoring and Auto Control System Using Wireless Sensor Network for Fungus Propagation Prevention in Leaf of Crop. In: Ślęzak D, Kim T-H, Stoica A, Kang B-H (eds) Control and Automation: International Conference, CA 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, CA 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009.Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 28–34

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 (2016) Can Ayahuasca, The ‘Sacred Plant’ Of The Amazon, Help Addiction And Depression? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-ayahuasca-the-sacred-plant-of-the-amazon-help-addiction-and-depression/. 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 (1995) Land-Grant College Revenues. 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

Simmons CI (2017) A Logistic Regression Analysis of Multiple Independent Variables Impacting Psychiatric Readmissions. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Grynbaum MM, Koblin J (2017) Kelly and NBC Quickly Land on the Hot Seat. New York Times B3

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

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