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

Macilwain C (2013) Scottish science is ready to go it alone. Nature 493:579

A journal article with 2 authors

Li G, Zhang J (2014) Ultra-broadband and efficient surface plasmon polariton launching through metallic nanoslits of subwavelength period. Sci Rep 4:5914

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoo AS, Bais C, Greenwald I (2004) Crosstalk between the EGFR and LIN-12/Notch pathways in C. elegans vulval development. Science 303:663–666

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fujioka Y, Ishigaki S, Masuda A, et al (2013) FUS-regulated region- and cell-type-specific transcriptome is associated with cell selectivity in ALS/FTLD. Sci Rep 3:2388

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diab WW, Frazier HM (2011) Ethernet in the First Mile. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Simovici DA (2014) Mathematical Tools for Data Mining: Set Theory, Partial Orders, Combinatorics, 2nd ed. 2014. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Kubasik J (2006) The Status of Regulation and Competition in Poland in the Advent of the Accession to the EU. In: Preissl B, Müller J (eds) Governance of Communication Networks: Connecting Societies and Markets with IT. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, pp 57–77

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

Felton J (2017) Scientists Grow Flatworm With Two Heads Instead Of Tail. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-grow-flatworm-with-two-heads-instead-of-tail/. 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 (1999) Space Transportation: Progress of the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program. 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

Zhao L (2017) Modeling, Estimation and Approximation in Structured Models. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Brantley B (2017) Where Heathcliff Fears to Tread. New York Times C2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2013; Li and Zhang 2014).

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

Two authors: (Li and Zhang 2014)
Three or more authors: (Fujioka et al. 2013)

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