How to format your references using the Micromachines citation style

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

Brumfiel, G. Cosmology: Welcome to the Real World. Nature 2003, 426, 751.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dalton, R.; Cyranoski, D. Baja Peninsula Claims Five Victims in Tragic Accident. Nature 2000, 404, 533.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, L.J.; Kuzmich, A.; Dogariu, A. Gain-Assisted Superluminal Light Propagation. Nature 2000, 406, 277–279.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Clemente-Blanco, A.; Mayán-Santos, M.; Schneider, D.A.; Machín, F.; Jarmuz, A.; Tschochner, H.; Aragón, L. Cdc14 Inhibits Transcription by RNA Polymerase I during Anaphase. Nature 2009, 458, 219–222.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon, L.; Ospina, J. Closed-Form Solutions for Drug Transport through Controlled-Release Devices in Two and Three Dimensions; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2015; ISBN 9781119055976.

An edited book

Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 8th International Conference, PROPOR 2008 Aveiro, Portugal, September 8-10, 2008 Proceedings; Teixeira, A., Lima, V.L.S. de, Oliveira, L.C. de, Quaresma, P., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; Vol. 5190; ISBN 9783540859796.

A chapter in an edited book

Jüttner, M. Part-Based Strategies for Visual Categorisation and Object Recognition. In Object Recognition, Attention, and Action; Osaka, N., Rentschler, I., Biederman, I., Eds.; Springer Japan: Tokyo, 2007; pp. 55–70 ISBN 9784431730187.

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 Micromachines.

Blog post

Taub, B. Making Art Can Reduce Stress Hormone Levels – Even If You Suck At It Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/making-art-can-reduce-stress-hormone-levels-even-if-you-suck-at-it/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Healthcare.Gov: Ineffective Planning and Oversight Practices Underscore the Need for Improved Contract Management; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2014;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clyde, K.M. Instructors’ Perceptions of the National Association of Schools of Music Influence on the Development of Undergraduate Applied Percussion Curricula. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University: Scottsdale, AZ, 2012.

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

St. John Kelly, E. Circular Makes the Rounds and Residents Complain. New York Times 1998, 148.

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 title	Micromachines
Abbreviation	Micromachines (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2072-666X
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering