How to format your references using the Microgravity Science and Technology citation style

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

Tesche, C.: QUANTUM MECHANICS: Enhanced: Schrodinger’s Cat Is Out of the Hat. Science. 290, 720–721 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Mongiat, L.A., Schinder, A.F.: Neuroscience. A price to pay for adult neurogenesis. Science. 344, 594–595 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Lisiecki, L.E., Raymo, M.E., Curry, W.B.: Atlantic overturning responses to Late Pleistocene climate forcings. Nature. 456, 85–88 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nimmo, F., Hart, S.D., Korycansky, D.G., Agnor, C.B.: Implications of an impact origin for the martian hemispheric dichotomy. Nature. 453, 1220–1223 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carrega, P.: Geographical Information and Climatology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Rayadurgam, S., Tkachuk, O. eds: NASA Formal Methods: 8th International Symposium, NFM 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 7-9, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Zerbe, I., Gajovic-Eichelmann, N.: Lipidic Microbubble Targeting of Surface Proteins Using an in Vitro System. In: Paradossi, G., Pellegretti, P., and Trucco, A. (eds.) Ultrasound Contrast Agents: Targeting and Processing Methods for Theranostics. pp. 41–52. Springer, Milano (2010)

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 Microgravity Science and Technology.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Comet Lovejoy Has Sugar And Alcohol, https://www.iflscience.com/space/comet-lovejoy-has-sugar-and-alcohol/

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: Broadband Internet: FCC Should Track the Application of Fixed Internet Usage-Based Pricing and Help Improve Consumer Education. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2014)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Richardson, R.S.: A phenomenological hermeneutic study of radiology, (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

St. John Kelly, E.: Implants Are Giving New Voices To Patients, (1998)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tesche 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Mongiat and Schinder 2014; Tesche 2000).

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

Two authors: (Mongiat and Schinder 2014)
Three or more authors: (Nimmo et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Microgravity Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Microgravity Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0938-0108
ISSN (online)	1875-0494
Scope	General Engineering Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation General Physics and Astronomy