How to format your references using the Micron citation style

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

Richards, P.G., 2005. Obituary: Keiiti Aki (1930-2005). Nature 435, 1176.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kodama, R., Fast-Ignitor Consortium, 2002. Fast heating scalable to laser fusion ignition. Nature 418, 933–934.

A journal article with 3 authors

Srinivasan, V., Pierik, A.J., Lill, R., 2014. Crystal structures of nucleotide-free and glutathione-bound mitochondrial ABC transporter Atm1. Science 343, 1137–1140.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Koller, J., Baumer, U., Kaup, Y., Schmid, M., Weser, U., 2003. Ancient materials: analysis of a pharaonic embalming tar. Nature 425, 784.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hu, J.C., 2011. Asset Securitization. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809.

An edited book

Atzmueller, M., Hotho, A., Strohmaier, M., Chin, A. (Eds.), 2011. Analysis of Social Media and Ubiquitous Data: International Workshops MSM 2010, Toronto, Canada, June 13, 2010, and MUSE 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Helsen, J.A., Missirlis, Y., 2010. Intoxicated by Implants?, in: Missirlis, Y. (Ed.), Biomaterials: A Tantalus Experience, Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 71–97.

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 Micron.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2017. An AI Was Trained To Create New Colors. It Was Wonderfully Terrible [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1972. Administrative Operations and Financial Transactions, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (No. 092435). 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

Racho, M.O., 2012. Attributes of Asian American senior leaders who have retained their cultural identity and been successful in American corporations (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Rosenberg, E., 2017. Acquitted, but Still Haunted by Jail and DNA Used Against Him. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Richards, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Kodama and Fast-Ignitor Consortium, 2002; Richards, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Kodama and Fast-Ignitor Consortium, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Koller et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Micron
Abbreviation	Micron
ISSN (print)	0968-4328
Scope	Cell Biology Structural Biology