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

Arthur, C., 2013. Academics should not remain silent on hacking. Nature 504, 333.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trenberth, K.E., Fasullo, J.T., 2010. Climate change. Tracking Earth’s energy. Science 328, 316–317.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ben-David, O., Cohen, G., Fineberg, J., 2010. The dynamics of the onset of frictional slip. Science 330, 211–214.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Araújo, R., Castanhinha, R., Martins, R.M.S., Mateus, O., Hendrickx, C., Beckmann, F., Schell, N., Alves, L.C., 2013. Filling the gaps of dinosaur eggshell phylogeny: Late Jurassic Theropod clutch with embryos from Portugal. Sci. Rep. 3, 1924.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davies, D., 2011. Philosophy of the Performing Arts. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Giese, K.P., Radwanska, K. (Eds.), 2016. Novel Mechanisms of Memory. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Daastøl, A.M., 2015. Friedrich List’s “Great Nations”: Mobilising Capital for Quality Labour, in: Backhaus, J. (Ed.), Great Nations at Peril, The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 37–75.

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., 2017. Swearing Makes You Physically Stronger, According To Strange Study [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/swearing-makes-you-physically-stronger-according-to-strange-study/ (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, 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: FAA Must Act Quickly to Prevent Systems Failures (No. T-AIMD-98-63). 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

Pezzolesi, M.G., 2008. Novel Mechanisms of PTEN Dysfunction in PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndromes (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Novick, S.M., 2014. A Twist on the Neighborhood Bar. New York Times LI11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Arthur, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Arthur, 2013; Trenberth and Fasullo, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Trenberth and Fasullo, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Araújo et al., 2013)

About the journal

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