How to format your references using the Microfluidics and Nanofluidics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. 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

Goodman S (2001) Pressure grows over US blood ban. Nature 412:467

A journal article with 2 authors

Page J, Ware M (2015) Perspective: Close the knowledge gap. Nature 525:S9

A journal article with 3 authors

Nagashima K, Krot AN, Yurimoto H (2004) Stardust silicates from primitive meteorites. Nature 428:921–924

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lauwereyns J, Watanabe K, Coe B, Hikosaka O (2002) A neural correlate of response bias in monkey caudate nucleus. Nature 418:413–417

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kandel HG (2005) Verfahrenstechnische Methoden in der Wirkstoffherstellung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Holzinger A, Pasi G (eds) (2013) Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery in Complex, Unstructured, Big Data: Third International Workshop, HCI-KDD 2013, Held at SouthCHI 2013, Maribor, Slovenia, July 1-3, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Siddiqui JH, Khurshid S (2009) An Empirical Study of Structural Constraint Solving Techniques. In: Breitman K, Cavalcanti A (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 11th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods ICFEM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 9-12, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 88–106

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 Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Mesmerizing New NASA Video Shows Their Latest Rocket At Work. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1995) INS Investment Strategy. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Espinoza M (2010) A Latina’s educational attainment and her observations of foster youth’s educational struggles: A narrative. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wilson M, Moynihan C (2017) Witnesses Recall Deafening Blast and Shrapnel in Chelsea Bombing Trial. New York Times A22

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Goodman 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Goodman 2001; Page and Ware 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Page and Ware 2015)
Three or more authors: (Lauwereyns et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
Abbreviation	Microfluid. Nanofluidics
ISSN (print)	1613-4982
ISSN (online)	1613-4990
Scope	Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics