How to format your references using the Multibody System Dynamics citation style

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

Alamaro, M.: Water politics must adapt to a warming world. Nature. 514, 7 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Parker, J.L., Newstead, S.: Molecular basis of nitrate uptake by the plant nitrate transporter NRT1.1. Nature. 507, 68–72 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Flower, T.P., Gribble, M., Ridley, A.R.: Deception by flexible alarm mimicry in an African bird. Science. 344, 513–516 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, H., Chandrasekar, S., Sheetz, M.P., Stossel, T.P., Nakamura, F., Yan, J.: Mechanical perturbation of filamin A immunoglobulin repeats 20-21 reveals potential non-equilibrium mechanochemical partner binding function. Sci. Rep. 3, 1642 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Makishima, A.: Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry (TIMS). Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2016)

An edited book

Nowicka, M., Šerbedžija, V. eds: Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Mattner, S.W.: THE IMPACT OF PATHOGENS ON PLANT INTERFERENCE AND ALLELOPATHY. In: INDERJIT and Mukerji, K.G. (eds.) Allelochemicals: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens and Diseases. pp. 79–101. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2006)

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 Multibody System Dynamics.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: How Forensic Science Can Unlock The Mysteries Of Human Evolution, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-forensic-science-can-unlock-the-mysteries-of-human-evolution/

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: Costs of Compliance With the Renegotiation Act of 1951. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1977)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rakusin, L.L.: Intervening to reduce adolescent substance abuse: A grant proposal, (2010)

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

Feeney, K.: No-Frills Cuban Fare, and Cheer, (2006)

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	Multibody System Dynamics
Abbreviation	Multibody Syst. Dyn.
ISSN (print)	1384-5640
ISSN (online)	1573-272X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering Control and Optimization Modelling and Simulation