How to format your references using the Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. 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

[1]

E. Dolgin, “Deprivation: a wake-up call,” Nature, vol. 497, no. 7450, pp. S6-7, May 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Michel-Kerjan and H. Kunreuther, “Disaster management. Redesigning flood insurance,” Science, vol. 333, no. 6041, pp. 408–409, Jul. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Baarlink, H. Wang, and R. Grosse, “Nuclear actin network assembly by formins regulates the SRF coactivator MAL,” Science, vol. 340, no. 6134, pp. 864–867, May 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. Stice, S. Spoor, C. Bohon, and D. M. Small, “Relation between obesity and blunted striatal response to food is moderated by TaqIA A1 allele,” Science, vol. 322, no. 5900, pp. 449–452, Oct. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

O. Coussy, Poromechanics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

A. Bolshoy, Genome Clustering: From Linguistic Models to Classification of Genetic Texts, vol. 286. in Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 286. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Boden, T. Wolf, C. Lanari, and A. Torres, “IPCT Ground Vibration Measurements on a Small Aircraft,” in Advanced In-Flight Measurement Techniques, F. Boden, N. Lawson, H. W. Jentink, and J. Kompenhans, Eds., in Research Topics in Aerospace. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, pp. 33–55.

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 Microelectromechanical Systems.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Earth’s First Land Vertebrates Used Their Lungs to Detect Sounds,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/earth-s-first-land-vertebrates-used-their-lungs-detect-sounds/

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Environmental Satellites: Polar-orbiting Satellite Acquisition Faces Delays; Decisions Needed on Whether and How to Ensure Climate Data Continuity,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-08-518, May 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Finley, “How online communication and social media networking are used in alcohol use treatment,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 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

[1]

G. Vecsey, “The Phillies Are Now The Hunted,” New York Times, p. B14, Dec. 15, 2010.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
Abbreviation	J. Microelectromech. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1057-7157
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering