How to format your references using the Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS. 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	Download the output style file
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

Q. Schiermeier, “NATO reform promises more publicity for less science,” Nature 422(6929), 248 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

D. B. Chklovskii and C. I. Bargmann, “Neuroscience. The mind of a male?,” Science 337(6093), 416–417 (2012).

A journal article with 3 authors

P. Stern, P. J. Hines, and J. Travis, “The aging brain. Introduction,” Science 346(6209), 566–567 (2014).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

M. Bailes et al., “Transformation of a star into a planet in a millisecond pulsar binary,” Science 333(6050), 1717–1720 (2011).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

A. Pétrowski and S. Ben-Hamida, Evolutionary Algorithms, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2017).

An edited book

G. Schneider, L. Grazioli, and S. Saini, Eds., MRI of the Liver: Imaging Techniques, Contrast Enhancement, Differential Diagnosis, 2nd Edition, Springer, Milano (2006).

A chapter in an edited book

K. Honda et al., “Structuring Communication with Session Types,” in Concurrent Objects and Beyond: Papers dedicated to Akinori Yonezawa on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, G. Agha et al., Eds., pp. 105–127, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014).

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/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS.

Blog post

J. O`Callaghan, “There Is No Word For This Color In English – But There Is Now In Japanese,” IFLScience, 29 March 2017 (accessed 30 October 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, “Contract Award Protest,” B-177482, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1973).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

U. T. Hayes, “Mental health services for foster youth: A grant proposal,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach (2014).

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

J. Hodgman, “Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman,” in New York Times, p. MM30 (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS
Abbreviation	J. Micro. Nanolithogr. MEMS MOEMS
ISSN (print)	1932-5150
ISSN (online)	1932-5134
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics