How to format your references using the Maturitas citation style

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

[1]

A. Gimalac, Recruiters and industry. Building biostatistics, Nature 430 (2004) 276.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.D. Bever, M. Wang, Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: hyphal fusion and multigenomic structure, Nature 433 (2005) E3-4; discussion E4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.K.S. Thorpe, R.L. Holder, R.H. Crompton, Origin of human bipedalism as an adaptation for locomotion on flexible branches, Science 316 (2007) 1328–1331.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E.C. Dueber, A.J. Schoeffler, A. Lingel, J.M. Elliott, A.V. Fedorova, A.M. Giannetti, K. Zobel, B. Maurer, E. Varfolomeev, P. Wu, H.J.A. Wallweber, S.G. Hymowitz, K. Deshayes, D. Vucic, W.J. Fairbrother, Antagonists induce a conformational change in cIAP1 that promotes autoubiquitination, Science 334 (2011) 376–380.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.R. Chernick, The Essentials of Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinicians, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A. Wanninger, ed., Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 1: Introduction, Non-Bilateria, Acoelomorpha, Xenoturbellida, Chaetognatha, 1st ed. 2015, Springer, Vienna, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Nieberler, R.J. Kittel, A.G. Petrenko, H.-H. Lin, T. Langenhan, Control of Adhesion GPCR Function Through Proteolytic Processing, in: T. Langenhan, T. Schöneberg (Eds.), Adhesion G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Molecular, Physiological and Pharmacological Principles in Health and Disease, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 83–109.

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 Maturitas.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Lead Magnetizes Graphene, With Implications For Future Computing, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/physics/lead-magnetizes-graphene-implications-future-computing/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, DOD Systems Modernization: Planned Investment in the Naval Tactical Command Support System Needs to be Reassessed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.K. Bottorff, Evaluating summer school programs and the effect on student achievement: The correlation between Stanford-10 standardized test scores and two different summer programs, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2010.

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

[1]

L. Saslow, Putting the Pan in Pan-American, New York Times (2006) 14LI8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Maturitas
Abbreviation	Maturitas
ISSN (print)	0378-5122
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Obstetrics and Gynaecology