How to format your references using the IEEE Micro citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Micro. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

A. Nakano, “Cell biology: Polarized transport in the Golgi apparatus,” Nature, vol. 521, no. 7553, pp. 427–428, May 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. W. Nilsen and B. R. Graveley, “Expansion of the eukaryotic proteome by alternative splicing,” Nature, vol. 463, no. 7280, pp. 457–463, Jan. 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. A. Gladyshev, M. Meselson, and I. R. Arkhipova, “Massive horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers,” Science, vol. 320, no. 5880, pp. 1210–1213, May 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Q. Song et al., “The combination of high Q factor and chirality in twin cavities and microcavity chain,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6493, Sep. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Toutain and A. Minaburo, Local Networks and the Internet. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

D. M. Gabbay, Conditionals and Modularity in General Logics. in Cognitive Technologies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. A. Nourbakhsh, B. A. Jaumotte, C. Hirsch, and H. B. Parizi, “Axial and Radial Thrusts,” in Turbopumps and Pumping Systems, S. A. Nourbakhsh, B. A. Jaumotte, C. Hirsch, and H. B. Parizi, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, pp. 51–65.

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 IEEE Micro.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Spectacular New Hubble Image Of The Universe,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/spectacular-new-hubble-image-universe/

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, “Pedestrians and Cyclists: Cities, States, and DOT Are Implementing Actions to Improve Safety,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-16-66, Nov. 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. N. Meyertholen, “Blurring the lines: The invention of abstract in German literature since 1800,” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2014.

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]

K. Crow, “Not Quite Creatures From Outer Space,” New York Times, p. 146, Nov. 19, 2000.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Micro
ISSN (print)	0272-1732
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Software Electrical and Electronic Engineering