How to format your references using the Micro and Nano Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Micro and Nano Engineering. 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]

S.L. Brock, Materials science. Filling a void, Science 317 (2007) 460–461.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N.A. Rakow, K.S. Suslick, A colorimetric sensor array for odour visualization, Nature 406 (2000) 710–713.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.J. Shaviv, A. Prokoph, J. Veizer, Is the solar system’s galactic motion imprinted in the Phanerozoic climate?, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6150.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.N. Klironomos, M.F. Allen, M.C. Rillig, J. Piotrowski, S. Makvandi-Nejad, B.E. Wolfe, J.R. Powell, Abrupt rise in atmospheric CO2 overestimates community response in a model plant-soil system, Nature 433 (2005) 621–624.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Jackson, Political Oratory and Cartooning, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

K. Cooper, J. Mellor-Crummey, V. Sarkar, eds., Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 23rd International Workshop, LCPC 2010, Houston, TX, USA, October 7-9, 2010. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X. Zhu, B. Song, Y. Ni, Y. Ren, R. Li, Software Defined Anything—From Software-Defined Hardware to Software Defined Anything, in: B. Song, Y. Ni, Y. Ren, R. Li (Eds.), Business Trends in the Digital Era: Evolution of Theories and Applications, Springer, Singapore, 2016: pp. 83–103.

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 Micro and Nano Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Test Can Calculate A Person’s Chances Of Waking From A Coma, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/test-can-calculate-person-s-chances-waking-coma/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Organization Conflict of Interest, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V.J. Capobianco, Effect of slot height variation on the aerodynamic performance of a circulation control airfoil: A CFD analysis, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

J. Hodgman, Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, New York Times (2017) MM28.

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	Micro and Nano Engineering
ISSN (print)	2590-0072
Scope