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

Coughlin SR (2000) Thrombin signalling and protease-activated receptors. Nature 407:258–264

A journal article with 2 authors

Feuillet C, Eversole K (2009) Plant science. Solving the maze. Science 326:1071–1072

A journal article with 3 authors

Esper J, Cook ER, Schweingruber FH (2002) Low-frequency signals in long tree-ring chronologies for reconstructing past temperature variability. Science 295:2250–2253

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sheppard SK, McCarthy ND, Falush D, Maiden MCJ (2008) Convergence of Campylobacter species: implications for bacterial evolution. Science 320:237–239

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fiorenzani S, Ravelli S, Edoli E (2012) The Handbook of Energy Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Taylor AD (2008) Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power and Proof, 2nd edn. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Ferrario B (2013) Uniqueness and Absolute Continuity for Semilinear SPDE’s. In: Dalang RC, Dozzi M, Russo F (eds) Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications VII: Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, May 2011. Springer, Basel, pp 85–94

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

Fang J (2015) Electric Eels Use Their High-Voltage Zaps To Both Stun And Track Prey. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/electric-eels-use-their-high-voltage-zaps-both-track-and-stun-prey/. 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 (2012) High-Speed Passenger Rail: Preliminary Assessment of California’s Cost Estimates and Other Challenges. 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

Tsai C-N (2012) A simulation study of hierarchical wireless sensor networks. 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

Wagner J (2017) A Washington Monument To Pitching’s Fickle Nature. New York Times SP1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coughlin 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Coughlin 2000; Feuillet and Eversole 2009).

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

Two authors: (Feuillet and Eversole 2009)
Three or more authors: (Sheppard et al. 2008)

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