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]

D.J. Auerbach, Surface science. Hitting the surface--softly, Science. 294 (2001) 2488–2489.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.W. Grimes, W.J. Nuttall, Generating the option of a two-stage nuclear renaissance, Science. 329 (2010) 799–803.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Kielpinski, C. Monroe, D.J. Wineland, Architecture for a large-scale ion-trap quantum computer, Nature. 417 (2002) 709–711.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Franzese, G. Malescio, A. Skibinsky, S.V. Buldyrev, H.E. Stanley, Generic mechanism for generating a liquid-liquid phase transition, Nature. 409 (2001) 692–695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L.M. Batten, Public Key Cryptography, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Heck, ed., The Multinational History of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

O.E. Cárdenas, E. Romero, A. Lloret, J. Suriol, Effect of Intermediate Stress on Collapse Behaviour of a Compacted Clayey Silt, in: C. Mancuso, C. Jommi, F. D’Onza (Eds.), Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications: Volume 1, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 25–30.

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]

S. Luntz, New Contraceptive Lasts For Three Months And Protects Against HIV And Pregnancy, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-contraceptive-lasts-three-months-and-protects-against-hiv-and-pregnancy/ (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, Federal Autism Activities: Agencies Are Encouraging Early Identification and Providing Services, and Recent Actions Could Improve Coordination, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.V. Kaiser, “Maps of the world[s] in its becoming[s]”: Seeking queer potentialities in the post-apocalyptic narrative, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

J. Yoo, Executive Power Run Amok, New York Times. (2017) A21.

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

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