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

Epstein, J.M.: Modelling to contain pandemics. Nature. 460, 687 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Moura, A.C. de A., Lee, P.C.: Capuchin stone tool use in Caatinga dry forest. Science. 306, 1909 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Stefanová, I., Dorfman, J.R., Germain, R.N.: Self-recognition promotes the foreign antigen sensitivity of naive T lymphocytes. Nature. 420, 429–434 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mahal, L.K., Charter, N.W., Angata, K., Fukuda, M., Koshland, D.E., Jr, Bertozzi, C.R.: A small-molecule modulator of poly-alpha 2,8-sialic acid expression on cultured neurons and tumor cells. Science. 294, 380–381 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deacon, M., Derry, A., Mirfendereski, D.: Inflation-indexed Securities. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK (2004)

An edited book

Hökfelt, T. ed: Galanin. Springer, Basel (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Webster, J., Roberts, J., Jones, R.: Development of a Comfort Model for Cricket Leg Guards (P9). In: Brisson, P. (ed.) The Engineering of Sport 7: Vol. 1. pp. 35–44. Springer, Paris (2008)

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

Evans, K.: Scientists Glue Shark Teeth To Electric Saw To Mimic How They Bite, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-glue-shark-teeth-to-electric-saw-to-mimic-how-they-bite/

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: Air Quality Planning Processes at Selected Airports. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1994)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bustos, I.: Backpacking Through My Suburban Barrio: Eco-Latina Diaries, (2017)

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

Dinardo, K.: Laetitia Trouillet, Designer, on the Shops and Souks of Marrakesh, (2013)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Epstein 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Epstein 2009; Moura and Lee 2004).

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

Two authors: (Moura and Lee 2004)
Three or more authors: (Mahal et al. 2001)

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