How to format your references using the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 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]

Hardie D G 2011 Cell biology. Why starving cells eat themselves Science 331 410–1

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Agosta S J and Dunham A E 2004 Comment on “How the horned lizard got its horns” Science 306 230; author reply 230

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Norell M A, Makovicky P J and Currie P J 2001 Palaeontology. The beaks of ostrich dinosaurs Nature 412 873–4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Bormashenko E, Pogreb R, Balter S and Aurbach D 2013 Electrically controlled membranes exploiting Cassie-Wenzel wetting transitions Sci. Rep. 3 3028

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Saksena F B 2008 Color Atlas of Local and Systemic Signs of Cardiovascular Disease (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Zadeh L A, Abbasov A M, Yager R R, Shahbazova S N and Reformat M Z 2014 Recent Developments and New Directions in Soft Computing vol 317 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hansen M R and Kristensen J T 2008 Experiences with Functional Programming in an Introductory Curriculum Reflections on the Teaching of Programming: Methods and Implementations Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed J Bennedsen, M E Caspersen and M Kölling (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 30–46

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 Micromechanics and Microengineering.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Chimpanzee Thievery Caught On Film IFLScience

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 1999 Railroad Regulation: Current Issues Associated With the Rate Relief Process (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Leak S C 2010 Building community capacity to meet the needs of our aging society: Interdisciplinary competency development for professionals Doctoral dissertation (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina)

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]

Bilefsky D 2012 Romania Votes on Whether to Remove Its President New York Times A5

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 Micromechanics and Microengineering
Abbreviation	J. Micromech. Microeng.
ISSN (print)	0960-1317
ISSN (online)	1361-6439
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials