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

Mann CC (2007) Archaeology. Mystery towers in Peru are an ancient solar calendar. Science 315:1206–1207

A journal article with 2 authors

Lichtman JW, Denk W (2011) The big and the small: challenges of imaging the brain’s circuits. Science 334:618–623

A journal article with 3 authors

Lanzillo NA, Kharche N, Nayak SK (2014) Substrate-induced band gap renormalization in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. Sci Rep 4:3609

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Song H, Kim Y, Jang YH, et al (2009) Observation of molecular orbital gating. Nature 462:1039–1043

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singh MP, Huhns MN (2006) Service-Oriented Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Flesca S (2011) Repairing and Querying Databases under Aggregate Constraints. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Martone E, D’onofrio M, Malagò R, et al (2008) Procedure terapeutiche. In: Ruzzenente A (ed) Ecografia e procedure interventistiche percutanee: Fegato, vie biliari e pancreas. Springer, Milano, pp 67–81

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

Carpineti A (2015) Pluto’s Surface Might Be Resting On An Ammonia-Water Slurry. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/pluto-s-surface-might-be-resting-ammonia-water-slurry/. 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 (2000) Critical Infrastructure Protection: Comments on the Proposed Cyber Security Information Act of 2000. 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

Bakhoda A (2013) Synthesis and Electrochemistry of Ru(II) Vinylidenes. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Rothenberg B (2017) Returning to Form, Nadal and Dimitrov End Grand Slam Droughts. New York Times B8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mann 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Mann 2007; Lichtman and Denk 2011).

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

Two authors: (Lichtman and Denk 2011)
Three or more authors: (Song et al. 2009)

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