How to format your references using the Magister citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Magister. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Solomon, S. (2004). The hole truth. Nature, 427(6972), 289–291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Drake, J. M., & Griffen, B. D. (2010). Early warning signals of extinction in deteriorating environments. Nature, 467(7314), 456–459.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pichersky, E., Noel, J. P., & Dudareva, N. (2006). Biosynthesis of plant volatiles: nature’s diversity and ingenuity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5762), 808–811.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bustamante, C. D., Nielsen, R., Sawyer, S. A., Olsen, K. M., Purugganan, M. D., & Hartl, D. L. (2002). The cost of inbreeding in Arabidopsis. Nature, 416(6880), 531–534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrucelli, J. R. (2013). Detecting Fraud in Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Daim, T. U., Kim, J., Iskin, I., Abu Taha, R., & van Blommestein, K. C. (Eds.). (2015). Policies and Programs for Sustainable Energy Innovations: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sharma, T., Low, S., & Foster, P. J. (2009). The Classification of Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma. In F. Grehn & R. Stamper (Eds.), Glaucoma (pp. 41–48). Springer.

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 Magister.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, August 30). How A Nasty, Brain-Eating Parasite Could Help Us Fight Cancer. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-a-nasty-braineating-parasite-could-help-us-fight-cancer/

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. (2004). Student Consolidation Loans: Further Analysis Could Lead to Enhanced Default Assumptions for Budgetary Cost Estimates (GAO-04-843). 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

Richardson, V. M. (2013). In vitro thyroid hormone metabolism: Effects of nuclear receptor activation on the metabolic profiles of thyroxine in rat and human hepatocytes [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Baker, P. (2017, May 19). Leaving Stress As More Waits In Trip Abroad. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Solomon, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Drake & Griffen, 2010; Solomon, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Drake & Griffen, 2010)
Three authors: (Pichersky et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Bustamante et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Magister
Abbreviation	Magister
ISSN (print)	0212-6796
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