How to format your references using the MorphoMuseuM citation style

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

Gingerich, O. 2009. Year of astronomy: Mankind’s place in the Universe. Nature, 457:28–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, M. J., and G. A. Early. 2004. Cumulative sperm whale bone damage and the bends. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306:2215.

A journal article with 3 authors

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

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gilbert, D. A., G. T. Zimanyi, R. K. Dumas, M. Winklhofer, A. Gomez, N. Eibagi, J. L. Vicent, and K. Liu. 2014. Quantitative decoding of interactions in tunable nanomagnet arrays using first order reversal curves. Scientific Reports, 4:4204.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williams, T., and V. Turton. 2014. Trading Economics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, p.

An edited book

2009. Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security (M. E. Johnson (ed.)). Springer US, Boston, MA, XIV, 347 p. 20 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Keller, J. K., and C. R. Smith. 2014. Refining Habitat Specificity; p. 69–80. In C. R. Smith (ed.), Improving GIS-based Wildlife-Habitat Analysis., . SpringerBriefs in Ecology Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 MorphoMuseuM.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2015. “Surfing” Antimatter Breakthrough Could Accelerate The Hunt For Exotic Particles. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 IFLScience.

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. 2008. Inspectors General: Actions Needed to Improve Audit Coverage of NASA. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, p.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shabalin, A. A. 2010. Detection of low rank signals in noise and fast correlation mining with applications to large biological data. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC p.

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

Kelly, H. C. 2003. Terrorism and the Biology Lab. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gingerich, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Moore and Early, 2004; Gingerich, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Early, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Gilbert et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	MorphoMuseuM
ISSN (online)	2274-0422
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