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]

J. Knight, US rejects bioweapon inspections, Nature. 412 (2001) 365.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.M. Krieg, G.B. Lipford, Immunology. The toll of cathepsin K deficiency, Science. 319 (2008) 576–577.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Kalokairinou, H.C. Howard, P. Borry, Science and Regulation. Changes on the horizon for consumer genomics in the EU, Science. 346 (2014) 296–298.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.B. Luthcke, H.J. Zwally, W. Abdalati, D.D. Rowlands, R.D. Ray, R.S. Nerem, F.G. Lemoine, J.J. McCarthy, D.S. Chinn, Recent Greenland ice mass loss by drainage system from satellite gravity observations, Science. 314 (2006) 1286–1289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

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

An edited book

[1]

A. Cowan, G. Yosipovitch, eds., Pharmacology of Itch, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Seddon, B. O’Donovan, K. Zokaei, Rethinking Lean Service, in: M. Macintyre, G. Parry, J. Angelis (Eds.), Service Design and Delivery, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2011: pp. 41–60.

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]

J. Davis, Over 95% Of The World’s Population Suffer From Health Problems, IFLScience. (2015).

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, Polar Weather Satellites: NOAA Identified Ways to Mitigate Data Gaps, but Contingency Plans and Schedules Require Further Attention, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Mehta, An optimized modified booth recoder for efficient design of the add-multiply operator, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

B. Tappin, L. Van Der Leer, R. Mckay, Your Opinion Is Set in Stone, New York Times. (2017) SR8.

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

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