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

Sagdeev, R.: History of science. Sputnik and the Soviets. Science. 318, 51–52 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Golestani, A., Gras, R.: Can we predict the unpredictable? Sci. Rep. 4, 6834 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Hurrell, J.W., Kushnir, Y., Visbeck, M.: Climate. The North Atlantic oscillation. Science. 291, 603–605 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Douglas, S.M., Dietz, H., Liedl, T., Högberg, B., Graf, F., Shih, W.M.: Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes. Nature. 459, 414–418 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

D’Amico, G., Di Biase, G., Janssen, J., Manca, R.: Semi-Markov Migration Models for Credit Risk. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2017)

An edited book

Ginley, D.S. ed: Handbook of Transparent Conductors. Springer US, Boston, MA (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Shi, X.: The Path Toward Mass Higher Education in China. In: Shin, J.C., Postiglione, G.A., and Huang, F. (eds.) Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia: Strategy, Quality, and Challenges. pp. 63–88. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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

Hale, T.: Someone Built A Real-Life Thor’s Hammer That Can Only Be Lifted By Its Creator

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: ADP Acquisitions: Lessons Learned From SEC’s Edgar Pilot Test. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1987)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Starner, R.N.: Expanding the Scope of Silyl Protecting Groups for Sialylation Reactions, (2013)

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

Protess, B.: Corzine and Regulators Settle in MF Global Case, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sagdeev 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Golestani and Gras 2014; Sagdeev 2007).

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

Two authors: (Golestani and Gras 2014)
Three or more authors: (Douglas et al. 2009)

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