How to format your references using the McDonald Institute Monographs citation style

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

Jones, R., 2010. Biomarkers: casting the net wide, Nature 466(7310), S11-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zeller, D. & S. Booth, 2005. Costs and benefits of regulating mercury, Science (New York, N.Y.) 310(5749), 777–79; author reply 777-9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kasting, J.F., D.C. Catling & K. Zahnle, 2012. Atmospheric oxygenation and volcanism, Nature 487(7408), E1; discussion E2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Marti, M., R.T. Good, M. Rug, E. Knuepfer & A.F. Cowman, 2004. Targeting malaria virulence and remodeling proteins to the host erythrocyte, Science (New York, N.Y.) 306(5703), 1930–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rimai, D.S., 2016. Patent Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

(eds.)Barbosa, D., S. Anton, L. Gurvits & D. Maia, 2012. The Square Kilometre Array: Paving the Way for the New 21st Century Radio Astronomy Paradigm: Proceedings of Symposium 7 of JENAM 2010 (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Baer, S. & K. Ensslin, 2015. Non-Abelian Statistics and Its Signatures in Interference Experiments, in Transport Spectroscopy of Confined Fractional Quantum Hall Systems, ed. K. Ensslin (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences). Cham: Springer International Publishing, 63–71.

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 McDonald Institute Monographs.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Curiosity Catches A Whiff Of Methane On Mars – And A Possibility Of Past Life. IFLScience 16 December 2014 . https://www.iflscience.com/space/curiosity-catches-whiff-methane-mars-and-possibility-past-life/ [Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Singh, K.K., 2015. An 8-PSK Receiver Using LNA & SRO: Design and Mathematical Analysis, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Sanger-Katz, M. & R. Abelson, 2017. President Dismisses Markets, but One Insurer Bets Big on Them, New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jones 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jones 2010; Zeller & Booth 2005).

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

Two authors: (Zeller & Booth 2005)
Three or more authors: (Marti et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	McDonald Institute Monographs
ISSN (print)	1363-1349
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