How to format your references using the Microprocessors and Microsystems citation style

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

[1]

D.J. Montell, Morphogenetic cell movements: diversity from modular mechanical properties, Science 322 (2008) 1502–1505.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.C. Malin, K.S. Edgett, Evidence for persistent flow and aqueous sedimentation on early Mars, Science 302 (2003) 1931–1934.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. MacLeod, M. Benfield, P. Culverhouse, Time to automate identification, Nature 467 (2010) 154–155.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L.M. Márquez, R.S. Redman, R.J. Rodriguez, M.J. Roossinck, A virus in a fungus in a plant: three-way symbiosis required for thermal tolerance, Science 315 (2007) 513–515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Bertolo, Interactions on Digital Tablets in the Context of 3D Geometry Learning, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

A. von Lünen, C. Travis, eds., History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.A. Feinberg, Reduction of Discounted Continuous-Time MDPs with Unbounded Jump and Reward Rates to Discrete-Time Total-Reward MDPs, in: D. Hernández-Hernández, J.A. Minjárez-Sosa (Eds.), Optimization, Control, and Applications of Stochastic Systems: In Honor of Onésimo Hernández-Lerma, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 2012: pp. 77–97.

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 Microprocessors and Microsystems.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Sierra Leone Is Now Officially Free Of Ebola, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sierra-leone-now-free-ebola/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, National Airspace System: Summary of Flight Delay Trends for 34 Airports in the Continental United States (GAO-10-543SP, May 26, 2010), an E-supplement to GAO-10-542, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.D. Crawford, Teacher Job Satisfaction as Related to Student Performance on State-Mandated Testing, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2017.

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

[1]

J. Wagner, As Injury Carousel Spins, the Mets Keep Reeling, New York Times (2017) SP4.

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	Microprocessors and Microsystems
Abbreviation	Microprocess. Microsyst.
ISSN (print)	0141-9331
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Software