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

Gershon, D. (2000). Partners resolve their differences and unite at the second attempt. Nature, 405(6783), 258.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fernandez, J. M., & Li, H. (2004). Force-clamp spectroscopy monitors the folding trajectory of a single protein. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5664), 1674–1678.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fernandes, C. C., Podos, J., & Lundberg, J. G. (2004). Amazonian ecology: tributaries enhance the diversity of electric fishes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5692), 1960–1962.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Huber, T. L., Kouskoff, V., Fehling, H. J., Palis, J., & Keller, G. (2004). Haemangioblast commitment is initiated in the primitive streak of the mouse embryo. Nature, 432(7017), 625–630.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Demand, N. H. (2011). The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Motizuki, K. (2010). Electronic Structure and Magnetism of 3d-Transition Metal Pnictides (H. Ido, T. Itoh, & M. Morifuji, Eds.; Vol. 131). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bauer, E., Pavón, E., Pereira, C. H. F., & Nascimento, M. L. M. (2016). Criteria for Identification of Ceramic Detachments in Building Facades with Infrared Thermography. In J. M. P. Q. Delgado (Ed.), Recent Developments in Building Diagnosis Techniques (pp. 51–68). 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

Carpineti, A. (2015, November 9). New Study Explains The Mystery Of The Moon’s Formation. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/chemicals-differences-between-moon-and-earth-explained/

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. (1999). National Airspace System: Review of FAA’s Spending for Operations (RCED/OGC/AIMD-99-222R). 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

Amin, R. M. (2010). Detecting targeted malicious email through supervised classification of persistent threat and recipient oriented features [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Cooper, M. (2013, October 29). Bolshoi’s Plans for New York Remain Unclear. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Fernandez & Li, 2004; Gershon, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Fernandez & Li, 2004)
Three authors: (Fernandes et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Huber et al., 2004)

About the journal

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