How to format your references using the Microsystem Technologies citation style

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

Kerr RA (2000) PLANETARY SCIENCE: Making a Splash With a Hint of Mars Water. Science 288:2295–2297

A journal article with 2 authors

van Loosdrecht MCM, Brdjanovic D (2014) Water treatment. Anticipating the next century of wastewater treatment. Science 344:1452–1453

A journal article with 3 authors

Deuss A, Irving JCE, Woodhouse JH (2010) Regional variation of inner core anisotropy from seismic normal mode observations. Science 328:1018–1020

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Muruve DA, Pétrilli V, Zaiss AK, et al (2008) The inflammasome recognizes cytosolic microbial and host DNA and triggers an innate immune response. Nature 452:103–107

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rao KR, Bojkovic ZS, Milovanovic DA (2005) Introduction to Multimedia Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gniech Karasawa MM (ed) (2015) Reproductive Diversity of Plants: An Evolutionary Perspective and Genetic Basis, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Cordella M, Poiani A (2014) The Existential Dimension of Cancer. In: Poiani A (ed) Behavioural Oncology: Psychological, Communicative, and Social Dimensions. Springer, New York, NY, pp 225–278

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 Microsystem Technologies.

Blog post

Fang J (2016) Marine Ecosystems Took 3 Million Years To Recover After The Great Dying. In: IFLScience. 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 (1989) Railroad Safety: DOT Should Better Manage Its Hazardous Materials Inspection Program. 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

Parsons JR (2010) Throwing a wrench in the translational machinery: Discovery of RNA ligands by fluorescence techniques. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Risen J, Fink S, Savage C (2017) State Secrets Privilege Invoked to Block Testimony in C.I.A. Torture Case. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kerr 2000; van Loosdrecht and Brdjanovic 2014).

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

Two authors: (van Loosdrecht and Brdjanovic 2014)
Three or more authors: (Muruve et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Microsystem Technologies
Abbreviation	Microsyst. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0946-7076
ISSN (online)	1432-1858
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics