How to format your references using the Microsystem Technologies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microsystem Technologies. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

O’Garra A (2013) Brigitte Askonas (1923-2013). Nature 494:37

A journal article with 2 authors

Hey T, Trefethen AE (2005) Cyberinfrastructure for e-Science. Science 308:817–821

A journal article with 3 authors

Bishop JKB, Davis RE, Sherman JT (2002) Robotic observations of dust storm enhancement of carbon biomass in the North Pacific. Science 298:817–821

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sun W, Arculus RJ, Kamenetsky VS, Binns RA (2004) Release of gold-bearing fluids in convergent margin magmas prompted by magnetite crystallization. Nature 431:975–978

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Promislow SD (2010) Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Wyrzykowski R, Dongarra J, Karczewski K, Wasniewski J (eds) (2010) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 8th International Conference, PPAM 2009, Wroclaw, Poland, September 13-16, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Abo M, Kakuda W (2015) rTMS for Poststroke Dysphagia. In: Kakuda W (ed) Rehabilitation with rTMS. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 89–108

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 Microsystem Technologies.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Winners Of The 25th Ig Nobel Awards Announced. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/winners-25th-ig-nobel-awards-announced/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1998) Transportation Infrastructure: Supplemental Information on the Federal Highway Administration’s Project Selection Process for Five Discretionary Programs. 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

BenVau L (2014) Effects of larval Nosema ceranae infection on adult honey bee (Apis mellifera) morphology and physiology. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Feeney K (2008) Overstuffed Nod to Tradition. New York Times NJ9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’Garra 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Hey and Trefethen 2005; O’Garra 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hey and Trefethen 2005)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Microsystem Technologies
Abbreviation	Microsyst. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0946-7076
ISSN (online)	1432-1858
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics