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]

Moro-Martin A 2014 A call to those who care about Europe’s science Nature 514 141

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Eichelkraut T and Szameit A 2015 Photonics: Random sudoku light Nature 526 643–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Matsumoto M, Saito S and Ohmine I 2002 Molecular dynamics simulation of the ice nucleation and growth process leading to water freezing Nature 416 409–13

A journal article with 99 or more authors

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Lee R, Kermani P, Teng K K and Hempstead B L 2001 Regulation of cell survival by secreted proneurotrophins Science 294 1945–8

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Bonneau D, Fatu A and Souchet D 2014 Hydrodynamic Bearings (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Ivan I, Benenson I, Jiang B, Horák J, Haworth J and Inspektor T 2015 Geoinformatics for Intelligent Transportation (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

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Arzarello F, Dané C, Lovera L, Mosca M, Nolli N and Ronco A 2012 Geometria sul cono Dalla geometria di Euclide alla geometria dell’Universo: Geometria su sfera, cilindro, cono, pseudosfera ed C Dané, L Lovera, M Mosca, N Nolli and A Ronco (Milano: Springer) pp 69–88

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

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Andrew E 2015 Blocking “Pro-Aging” Molecule Could Reverse Memory Loss 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

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Government Accountability Office 2007 Transportation Security: Efforts to Strengthen Aviation and Surface Transportation Security are Under Way, but Challenges Remain (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

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Boggs B D 2012 An assessment of campus police departments across Mississippi’s public community and junior colleges Doctoral dissertation (Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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]

Greenhouse L 2008 Justices Will Hear Case On Evidence Suppression New York Times A15

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