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]

H. Wessells, “Another green world. There’s more to industrial waste than chimneys and slag heaps,” Nature, vol. 405, no. 6788, p. 741, Jun. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. J. Hawker and K. L. Wooley, “The convergence of synthetic organic and polymer chemistries,” Science, vol. 309, no. 5738, pp. 1200–1205, Aug. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Betschinger, K. Mechtler, and J. A. Knoblich, “The Par complex directs asymmetric cell division by phosphorylating the cytoskeletal protein Lgl,” Nature, vol. 422, no. 6929, pp. 326–330, Mar. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. K. Balagaddé, L. You, C. L. Hansen, F. H. Arnold, and S. R. Quake, “Long-term monitoring of bacteria undergoing programmed population control in a microchemostat,” Science, vol. 309, no. 5731, pp. 137–140, Jul. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. H. Lieser, Nuclear and Radiochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

L. M. Erin and W. M. M. S, Eds., Fibromyalgia: Clinical Guidelines and Treatments. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. K. Hippler, D. S. Klopfer, L. M. Leventhal, G. M. Poor, B. A. Klein, and S. D. Jaffee, “More than Speed? An Empirical Study of Touchscreens and Body Awareness on an Object Manipulation Task,” in Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Techniques and Environments: 14th International Conference, HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, J. A. Jacko, Ed., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 33–42.

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]

A. Carpineti, “Planets Might Not Always Be Hiding In Disk Gaps Seen Around Young Stars,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/disk-gaps-don-t-indicate-presence-planet/

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, “Chemical Assessments: Challenges Remain with EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System Program,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-42, Dec. 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. A. Garcia, “Tracking chemistry self-efficacy and achievement in a preparatory chemistry course,” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2010.

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]

I. Urbina, “Video Captures 4 Murders, but Killers Go Unpunished,” New York Times, p. A1, Jul. 20, 2015.

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