How to format your references using the Micron citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Micron. 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	Download the output style file
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

Halavais, A., 2011. Social science: Open up online research. Nature 480, 174–175.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowley, J.D., Blumenthal, T., 2008. Medicine. The cart before the horse. Science 321, 1302–1304.

A journal article with 3 authors

Canfield, D.E., Glazer, A.N., Falkowski, P.G., 2010. The evolution and future of Earth’s nitrogen cycle. Science 330, 192–196.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kocot, K.M., Cannon, J.T., Todt, C., Citarella, M.R., Kohn, A.B., Meyer, A., Santos, S.R., Schander, C., Moroz, L.L., Lieb, B., Halanych, K.M., 2011. Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships. Nature 477, 452–456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Steland, A., 2012. Financial Statistics and Mathematical Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Philipov, D., Liefbroer, A.C., Klobas, J.E. (Eds.), 2015. Reproductive Decision-Making in a Macro-Micro Perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Ivanova, E.P., Kurilenko, A., Wang, F., Crawford, R.J., 2010. Comparative Genomics of Pathogens, in: Sintchenko, V. (Ed.), Infectious Disease Informatics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 73–91.

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 Micron.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2017. New Type Of Lymphatic “Scavenger” Cells Unexpectedly Discovered In Zebrafish Brains [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Inadequacies in Data Processing Planning in the Department of the Interior (No. FGMSD-78-41). 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

Boukes, J., 2012. An exploration of online spam prevention through geolocational filters (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Lyons, M., Poniewozik, J., 2016. Oh, TV of Little Faith. New York Times AR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Halavais, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Halavais, 2011; Rowley and Blumenthal, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Rowley and Blumenthal, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kocot et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Micron
Abbreviation	Micron
ISSN (print)	0968-4328
Scope	Cell Biology Structural Biology