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]

E. Szathmáry, Evolution. To group or not to group?, Science 334 (2011) 1648–1649.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Gupta, R.N. Zare, Spinning molecules to bits, Nature 407 (2000) 33–34.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B.H. Falkenburger, K.L. Barstow, I.M. Mintz, Dendrodendritic inhibition through reversal of dopamine transport, Science 293 (2001) 2465–2470.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P.M. Thompson, J.N. Giedd, R.P. Woods, D. MacDonald, A.C. Evans, A.W. Toga, Growth patterns in the developing brain detected by using continuum mechanical tensor maps, Nature 404 (2000) 190–193.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F. Grist, Basic Guide to Orthodontic Dental Nursing, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

B. Akhgar, B. Brewster, eds., Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Stanciulescu, J. Vanderdonckt, Design Options for Multimodal Web Applications, in: G. Calvary, C. Pribeanu, G. Santucci, J. Vanderdonckt (Eds.), Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces V, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 41–56.

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]

A. Carpineti, Scientists Have Listed The Most Earth-like Planets Seen By Kepler, IFLScience (2016).

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, More Emphasis Needed on Data Analysis Phase of Space Science Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.N. Fox, Interpreting architecture: A Krauszian approach, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

L. Greenhouse, Court Rules Coach’s Violations Are Not a Form of Free Speech, New York Times (2007) D6.

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