How to format your references using the Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics. 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 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

Wilks Y (2007) Computer science. Is there progress on talking sensibly to machines? Science 318:927–928

A journal article with 2 authors

Denning DW, Bromley MJ (2015) Infectious Disease. How to bolster the antifungal pipeline. Science 347:1414–1416

A journal article with 3 authors

Ryckman JD, Jiao Y, Weiss SM (2013) Three-dimensional patterning and morphological control of porous nanomaterials by gray-scale direct imprinting. Sci Rep 3:1502

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Martinowich K, Hattori D, Wu H, et al (2003) DNA methylation-related chromatin remodeling in activity-dependent BDNF gene regulation. Science 302:890–893

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Millon T, Grossman S (2007) Moderating Severe Personality Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Beaty B (2016) The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Tisi M, Martínez S, Jouault F, Cabot J (2011) Lazy Execution of Model-to-Model Transformations. In: Whittle J, Clark T, Kühne T (eds) Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: 14th International Conference, MODELS 2011, Wellington, New Zealand, October 16-21, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 32–46

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 Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) SpaceX Unveils Its Stylish Crew Dragon Spacecraft That Will Take Astronauts To Space. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-unveils-its-stylish-crew-dragon-spacecraft-will-take-astronauts-space/. 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 (1999) Railroad Regulation: Changes in Railroad Rates and Service Quality Since 1990. 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

Contreras AG (2009) A reproductive health program for the Latino adolescent community: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wagner J (2017) Now It’s the Astros in Charge. New York Times D1

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	Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics
Abbreviation	J. Microbio Robot.
ISSN (print)	2194-6418
ISSN (online)	2194-6426
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering General Materials Science