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

Klug A (2002) Structural biology and biochemistry. Retrospective: Max Perutz (1914-2002). Science 295:2382–2383

A journal article with 2 authors

Eddingsaas NC, Suslick KS (2006) Mechanoluminescence: light from sonication of crystal slurries. Nature 444:163

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaochar S, Paek AL, Weinert T (2010) Genetics. Replication error amplified. Science 329:911–913

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ma RZ, Gao J, Meeker ND, et al (2002) Identification of Bphs, an autoimmune disease locus, as histamine receptor H1. Science 297:620–623

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lindahl D (2007) Emerging Real Estate Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Blankenship J (2011) Pro Agile .NET Development with Scrum. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Bault J-P, Loeuillet L (2015) Tips and Traps. In: Loeuillet L (ed) The Normal and Pathological Fetal Brain: Ultrasonographic Features. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 131–134

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

Luntz S (2014) How To Find Faster-Than-Light Particles. 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 (1983) U.S. Preparations for an International Conference on Broadcast Satellites. 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

Jaffer S (2013) Harnessing innovation in the 21st century: the impact of leadership styles. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Grynbaum MM, Steel E (2017) Fox News, Pledging New Culture, Ousts Another Symbol of Old One. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Klug 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Klug 2002; Eddingsaas and Suslick 2006).

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

Two authors: (Eddingsaas and Suslick 2006)
Three or more authors: (Ma 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