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

Bevan, M. J. 2007. Immunology. The cutting edge of T cell selection. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316:1291–1292.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolff, S., and A. Dillin. 2013. Ageing: beneficial miscommunication. Nature, 497:442–443.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsui, K., H. Yoshida, and Y. Ikuhara. 2014. Nanocrystalline, ultra-degradation-resistant zirconia: its grain boundary nanostructure and nanochemistry. Scientific Reports, 4:4758.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Arita, K., M. Ariyoshi, H. Tochio, Y. Nakamura, and M. Shirakawa. 2008. Recognition of hemi-methylated DNA by the SRA protein UHRF1 by a base-flipping mechanism. Nature, 455:818–821.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singh, J. 2017. Functional Software Size Measurement Methodology with Effort Estimation and Performance Indication. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, p.

An edited book

2011. Virtual Worlds and Criminality (K. Cornelius and D. Hermann (eds.)). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, IX, 124 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Johansen, P. H., M. Løberg, and R. Piene. 2008. Monoid Hypersurfaces; p. 55–77. In B. Jüttler and R. Piene (eds.), Geometric Modeling and Algebraic Geometry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Andrew, E. 2015. What Medicines Would We Pack For A Trip To Mars? 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. 2002. Highway Trust Fund: Overview of Highway Trust Fund Financing. 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

Blankenship, K. 2017. An Analysis of Illinois Public School Funding a Descriptive Comparison of Equity: 2005 v. 2015. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL 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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. 2005. Arts, Briefly; Opera Dispute at Bolshoi. New York Times, E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bevan, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bevan, 2007; Wolff and Dillin, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Wolff and Dillin, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Arita et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	MorphoMuseuM
ISSN (online)	2274-0422
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