How to format your references using the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering citation style

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

[1]

Rice J 2012 Metastasis: The rude awakening Nature 485 S55-7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fialko Y and Pearse J 2012 Sombrero uplift above the Altiplano-Puna Magma Body: evidence of a ballooning mid-crustal diapir Science 338 250–2

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Våge S, Storesund J E and Thingstad T F 2013 SAR11 viruses and defensive host strains Nature 499 E3-4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Parsons J, Altmann F, Graf M, Stadlmann J, Reski R and Decker E L 2013 A gene responsible for prolyl-hydroxylation of moss-produced recombinant human erythropoietin Sci. Rep. 3 3019

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lamperti J W 1996 Probability: A Survey of the Mathematical Theory (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Rodrigues J F, Seregin G and Urbano J M 2005 Trends in Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics vol 61 (Basel: Birkhäuser)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Koch M and Pauls K 2006 Engineering Self-protection for Autonomous Systems Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 9th International Conference, FASE 2006, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006, Vienna, Austria, March 27-28, 2006. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed L Baresi and R Heckel (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 33–47

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 Micromechanics and Microengineering.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J 2014 What Yellowstone’s Thermal Pools Looked Like Before Decades of Tourism IFLScience

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 1994 College Savings Issues (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bornmann J W 2009 Becoming soldiers: Army Basic Training and the negotiation of identity Doctoral dissertation (Washington, DC: George Washington University)

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]

Davis J H and Kelly K 2017 Trump Plans to Shift Infrastructure Funding to Cities, States and Business New York Times A18

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 Micromechanics and Microengineering
Abbreviation	J. Micromech. Microeng.
ISSN (print)	0960-1317
ISSN (online)	1361-6439
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials