How to format your references using the Micro and Nano Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Micro and Nano Engineering. 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

[1]

W.J. Ashworth, Metrology and the state: science, revenue, and commerce, Science 306 (2004) 1314–1317.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

O. Reubi, J. Blundy, A dearth of intermediate melts at subduction zone volcanoes and the petrogenesis of arc andesites, Nature 461 (2009) 1269–1273.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Yumoto, N. Kim, S.J. Burden, Lrp4 is a retrograde signal for presynaptic differentiation at neuromuscular synapses, Nature 489 (2012) 438–442.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Wang, H. Cao, G. Zhang, S. Bougouffa, O.O. Lee, A. Al-Suwailem, P.-Y. Qian, Autotrophic microbe metagenomes and metabolic pathways differentiate adjacent Red Sea brine pools, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1748.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

O. Stevenson, Neglected Children and Their Families, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

N. Reed, J.A. Green, D.M. Gershenson, N. Siddiqui, R. Connor, eds., Rare and Uncommon Gynecological Cancers: A Clinical Guide, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Duarte, Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” in: E.M. Duarte (Ed.), Being and Learning: A Poetic Phenomenology of Education, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2012: pp. 69–106.

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 Micro and Nano Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Uncovered: The Mysterious Killer Triffids That Dominate Life In Our Oceans, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/uncovered-the-mysterious-killer-triffids-that-dominate-life-in-our-oceans/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, European Aeronautics: Strong Government Presence in Industry Structure and Research and Development Support, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.C. Rogers, Documenting cultural transition through contact archaeology in Tíhoo, Mérida, Yucatán, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2010.

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]

J.R. Quain, Cars Will Talk to One Another. Exactly How Is Less Certain, New York Times (2017) B4.

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	Micro and Nano Engineering
ISSN (print)	2590-0072
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