How to format your references using the Microelectronic Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microelectronic 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	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]

A. Hodges, The man behind the machine, Nature 482 (2012) 441.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.Z. Jacobson, G.M. Masters, Energy. Exploiting wind versus coal, Science 293 (2001) 1438.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.L. Conway, T. Shinbrot, B.J. Glasser, A Taylor vortex analogy in granular flows, Nature 431 (2004) 433–437.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.B. Papp, K.S. Choi, H. Deng, P. Lougovski, S.J. van Enk, H.J. Kimble, Characterization of multipartite entanglement for one photon shared among four optical modes, Science 324 (2009) 764–768.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.M. Lachin, Biostatistical Methods: The Assessment of Relative Risks, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

A. Finn, N. Curtis, A.J. Pollard, eds., Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children VI, Springer, New York, NY, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Hordinsky, M. Ericson, Hair Follicle Vascularization and Innervation, in: U. Blume-Peytavi, A. Tosti, R.M. Trüeb (Eds.), Hair Growth and Disorders, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 75–83.

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 Microelectronic Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Fearsome Dinosaur With Ludicrously Tiny Arms Means T. Rex Wasn’t Alone, IFLScience (2016).

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, Federal Aviation Administration: Issues Related to FAA Reform, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Ratzlaff, Dynamics of chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) infection in amphibians in the Rincon Mountains and Tucson, Arizona, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2012.

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]

S.P. Koniak, G.M. Cohen, D.A. Dana, T. Ross, How Washington Abetted the Bank Job, New York Times (2010) WK10.

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	Microelectronic Engineering
Abbreviation	Microelectron. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0167-9317
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Surfaces, Coatings and Films Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics