How to format your references using the Morphologie citation style

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

[1]

Ghosh A. Neurobiology. Learning more about NMDA receptor regulation. Science 2002;295:449–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lee S-J, Masliah E. Neurodegeneration: Aggregates feel the strain. Nature 2015;522:296–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Green BM, Finn KJ, Li JJ. Loss of DNA replication control is a potent inducer of gene amplification. Science 2010;329:943–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Agogué H, Brink M, Dinasquet J, Herndl GJ. Major gradients in putatively nitrifying and non-nitrifying Archaea in the deep North Atlantic. Nature 2008;456:788–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chandru V, Hooker J. Optimization Methods for Logical Inference. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1999.

An edited book

[1]

Adams AA, Brenner M, Smith M, editors. Financial Cryptography and Data Security: FC 2013 Workshops, USEC and WAHC 2013, Okinawa, Japan, April 1, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 7862. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tajima K, Aminov R. Structure and Function of a Nonruminant Gut: A Porcine Model. In: Puniya AK, Singh R, Kamra DN, editors. Rumen Microbiology: From Evolution to Revolution, New Delhi: Springer India; 2015, p. 47–75.

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 Morphologie.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. 10,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Unearthed In Washington State. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/10000-year-old-stone-tools-unearthed-washington-state/ (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. Air Traffic Control: Characteristics and Performance of Selected International Air Navigation Service Providers and Lessons Learned from Their Commercialization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cox DC. A measurement of the neutral current neutrino-nucleon elastic cross section at MiniBooNE. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2008.

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]

Hanc J. Longer and Better. New York Times 2017:F4.

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	Morphologie
Abbreviation	Morphologie
ISSN (print)	1286-0115
Scope	Anatomy