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]

Plenio M B 2009 Physics. Less is more Science 324 342–3

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gweon H and Schulz L 2011 16-month-olds rationally infer causes of failed actions Science 332 1524

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tsuchida T, Koga R and Fukatsu T 2004 Host plant specialization governed by facultative symbiont Science 303 1989

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Moro R, Xu X, Yin S and de Heer W A 2003 Ferroelectricity in free niobium clusters Science 300 1265–9

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Yevick D and Yevick H 2014 Fundamental Math and Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc)

An edited book

[1]

Magnini B, Cutugno F, Falcone M and Pianta E 2013 Evaluation of Natural Language and Speech Tools for Italian: International Workshop, EVALITA 2011, Rome, January 24-25, 2012, Revised Selected Papers vol 7689 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bahadori M N, Dehghani-sanij A and Sayigh A 2014 An Analytical–Numerical Study of the Performance of New Designs of Wind Towers Wind Towers: Architecture, Climate and Sustainability ed A Dehghani-sanij and A Sayigh (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 119–47

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]

Andrews R 2016 Remarkable 3D Printed Replicas Of Ötzi The Iceman Are Coming To The U.S 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 1981 Observations on Selected Aspects of School Lunch Program Administration (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]

Blasdel E S 2010 A phenomenological study of barriers for women in federal law enforcement Doctoral dissertation (Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix)

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]

Valerian S 2013 For a Brown, the Comeback Trail Leads Home New York Times B17

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