How to format your references using the Microelectronics Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microelectronics Journal. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
D. Kaiser, History: From blackboards to bombs, Nature 523 (2015) 523–525.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
A. Hirn, M. Laigle, Geophysics. Silent heralds of megathrust earthquakes?, Science 305 (2004) 1917–1918.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
K. Takahashi, K. Mitsui, S. Yamanaka, Role of ERas in promoting tumour-like properties in mouse embryonic stem cells, Nature 423 (2003) 541–545.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
K. Sachs, O. Perez, D. Pe’er, D.A. Lauffenburger, G.P. Nolan, Causal protein-signaling networks derived from multiparameter single-cell data, Science 308 (2005) 523–529.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
J. Waupsh, Bankruption, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.
An edited book
[1]
Z.W. Geem, ed., Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm: Theory and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
R.W. Rieber, R.J. Kelly, Bedlam in Spyland: Is Bourne Bond?, in: R.J. Kelly (Ed.), Film, Television and the Psychology of the Social Dream, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 79–101.

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 Microelectronics Journal.

Blog post
[1]
E. Andrew, New Research Yields Insight Into The Origins Of Consciousness, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-research-yields-insight-origins-awareness/ (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, Survey of the Harrison County Head Start Program, Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
K.S. Lee, Towards an improved baton technique: The application and modification of conducting gestures drawn from the methods of Rudolf, Green and Saitö for enhanced performance of orchestral interpretations, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2008.

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. Sisario, After 15 Years, New York Is Back as Grammy Host, New York Times (2017) B2.

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 titleMicroelectronics Journal
ISSN (print)0026-2692
ScopeGeneral Engineering

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