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

S. Knapp, “Anthropology. Some like it hot,” Science 315(5814), 946–947 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

N. P. Kelley and N. D. Pyenson, “Vertebrate evolution. Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene,” Science 348(6232), aaa3716 (2015).

A journal article with 3 authors

Y. Ye, H. H. Meyer, and T. A. Rapoport, “The AAA ATPase Cdc48/p97 and its partners transport proteins from the ER into the cytosol,” Nature 414(6864), 652–656 (2001).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

S. G. F. Rasmussen et al., “Crystal structure of the β2 adrenergic receptor-Gs protein complex,” Nature 477(7366), 549–555 (2011).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

B. Dimond, Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2016).

An edited book

L. H. Reddy and P. Couvreur, Eds., Macromolecular Anticancer Therapeutics, Springer, New York, NY (2010).

A chapter in an edited book

J.-L. Duband, “Neural Crest Delamination and Migration,” in Neural Crest Induction and Differentiation, J.-P. Saint-Jeannet, Ed., pp. 45–77, Springer US, Boston, MA (2006).

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

R. Andrews, “Researchers Can Now 3D Print Stem Cell ‘Building Blocks,’” IFLScience, 9 November 2015, <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-can-now-3d-print-stem-cell-building-blocks/> (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, “Telecommunications: Changes in Selected Broadcast and Cable Television Reporting Requirements,” RCED-89-24, 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

R. Ayres, “Optimization of a Novel Oxy-Michael Ugi-Smiles Reaction,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University (2017).

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

L. Saslow, “LIPA Ponders Fate of Wind Farm as Costs Rise,” in New York Times, p. LI2 (2007).

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