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

Clark, A. G. (2014). Genetics: The vital Y chromosome. Nature, 508(7497), 463–465.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blunier, T., & Brook, E. J. (2001). Timing of millennial-scale climate change in Antarctica and Greenland during the last glacial period. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5501), 109–112.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rockman, M. V., Skrovanek, S. S., & Kruglyak, L. (2010). Selection at linked sites shapes heritable phenotypic variation in C. elegans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6002), 372–376.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Pan, J.-W., Gasparoni, S., Aspelmeyer, M., Jennewein, T., & Zeilinger, A. (2003). Experimental realization of freely propagating teleported qubits. Nature, 421(6924), 721–725.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Turner, J. E., Downing, D. J., & Bogard, J. S. (2012). Statistical Methods in Radiation Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Linkov, I., Ferguson, E., & Magar, V. S. (Eds.). (2008). Real-Time and Deliberative Decision Making: Application to Emerging Stressors. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Heinrich, B. (2008). Exchange Coupling in Magnetic Multilayers. In H. Zabel & S. D. Bader (Eds.), Magnetic Heterostructures: Advances and Perspectives in Spinstructures and Spintransport (pp. 185–250). 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, E. (2014, November 28). Solar Technology Could Make Underground Parks In Cramped Cities Possible. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/solar-technology-could-make-underground-parks-cramped-cities-possible/

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. (1975). Ways of Increasing Productivity in the Maintenance of Commercial-Type Vehicles (LCD-75-421). 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

Dean, D. O. (2012). A discrete-time multiple event process survival mixture (MEPSUM) model for investigating the order and timing of multiple non-repeatable events [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

Markoff, J., & Rosenberg, M. (2017, February 3). China’s Intelligent Weaponry Gets Smarter. New York Times, BU1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clark, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Blunier & Brook, 2001; Clark, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Blunier & Brook, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Pan et al., 2003)

About the journal

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