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

O. Bahcall, “Precision medicine,” Nature 526(7573), 335 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

H. A. Gasteiger and N. M. Marković, “Chemistry. Just a dream--or future reality?,” Science 324(5923), 48–49 (2009).

A journal article with 3 authors

M. A. Sillanpää, J. I. Park, and R. W. Simmonds, “Coherent quantum state storage and transfer between two phase qubits via a resonant cavity,” Nature 449(7161), 438–442 (2007).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Y. K. Jung et al., “Highly tunable aptasensing microarrays with graphene oxide multilayers,” Sci. Rep. 3, 3367 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

W. L. Baker, M. V. Marn, and C. C. Zawada, The Price Advantage, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010).

An edited book

M. J. Buehler and R. Ballarini, Eds., Materiomics: Multiscale Mechanics of Biological Materials and Structures, Springer, Vienna (2013).

A chapter in an edited book

C.-F. Méndez-Cruz et al., “Extrinsic Evaluation on Automatic Summarization Tasks: Testing Affixality Measurements for Statistical Word Stemming,” in Advances in Computational Intelligence: 11th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2012, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, October 27 – November 4, 2012. Revised Selected Papers, Part II, I. Batyrshin and M. G. Mendoza, Eds., pp. 46–57, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013).

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

K. Evans, “NASA’s $1 Billion Jupiter Probe Has Suffered 2 Big Problems In 2 Days,” IFLScience, 20 October 2016, <https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-one-billion-jupiter-probe-suffered-2-big-problems-in-2-days/> (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, “Highways: Acquiring Land for Federal-Aid Projects,” RCED-88-112, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1988).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

C. N. Obi, “Evaluation of feeding varying levels of digestible lysine on broiler breeder male reproductive characteristics and body weight changes,” Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University (2012).

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

K. Feeney, “No-Frills Cuban Fare, and Cheer,” in New York Times, p. NJ6 (2006).

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