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

Collins, F., 2010. Scientists need a shorter path to research freedom. Nature 467, 635.

A journal article with 2 authors

Outten, C.E., O’Halloran, T.V., 2001. Femtomolar sensitivity of metalloregulatory proteins controlling zinc homeostasis. Science 292, 2488–2492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Z., Chakrabarty, D., Kaplan, D.L., 2006. A debris disk around an isolated young neutron star. Nature 440, 772–775.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Floyd, J.S., Mutter, J.C., Goodliffe, A.M., Taylor, B., 2001. Evidence for fault weakness and fluid flow within an active low-angle normal fault. Nature 411, 779–783.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vincoli, J.W., 2014. Basic Guide to System Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ehrenfeld, J.M., Urman, R.D., Segal, S. (Eds.), 2016. Anesthesia Student Survival Guide: A Case-Based Approach, 2nd ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Altmann, C., Beck, A.D., Hindenlang, F., Staudenmaier, M., Gassner, G.J., Munz, C.-D., 2013. An Efficient High Performance Parallelization of a Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method, in: Keller, R., Kramer, D., Weiss, J.-P. (Eds.), Facing the Multicore-Challenge III: Aspects of New Paradigms and Technologies in Parallel Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 37–47.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. UK Solar Panels Produced More Energy Than Coal For An Unprecedented Six Months [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, 1990. Space Operations: NASA Is Not Properly Safeguarding Valuable Data From Past Missions (No. IMTEC-90-1). 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

Creason, P.J., 2015. The assessment of student learning outcomes at a California community college: Insight from faculty in a single department (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

Wagner, J., 2017. Future Is Now for Mets Prospect Rosario. New York Times B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Collins, 2010; Outten and O’Halloran, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Outten and O’Halloran, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Floyd et al., 2001)

About the journal

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