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

Dyson, F.J.: History of science. Is science mostly driven by ideas or by tools? Science. 338, 1426–1427 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Katsir, Y., Marmur, A.: Rate of bubble coalescence following quasi-static approach: screening and neutralization of the electric double layer. Sci. Rep. 4, 4266 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Silbergeld, E., Lerman, S., Hushka, L.: Ethics. Human health research ethics. Science. 305, 949 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Johnson, J., Canning, J., Kaneko, T., Pru, J.K., Tilly, J.L.: Germline stem cells and follicular renewal in the postnatal mammalian ovary. Nature. 428, 145–150 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Birla, R.: Introduction to Tissue Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Zheng, V.: Gambling Dynamism: The Macao Miracle. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Casale, P., Amft, O.: Inferring Model Structures from Inertial Sensor Data in Distributed Activity Recognition. In: Augusto, J.C., Wichert, R., Collier, R., Keyson, D., Salah, A.A., and Tan, A.-H. (eds.) Ambient Intelligence: 4th International Joint Conference, AmI 2013, Dublin, Ireland, December 3-5, 2013. Proceedings. pp. 62–77. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2013)

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

Hamilton, K.: Wolves Are Better At Problem-Solving Tasks Than Dogs, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/are-wolves-better-problem-solving-tasks-dogs/

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: Transportation Services: Better Dissemination and Oversight of DOT’s Guidance Could Lead to Improved Access for Limited English-Proficient Populations (Chinese Version). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2005)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kharal, S.P.: Modelling Sensitization Dynamics in 5xxx Series Aluminum Alloys, (2017)

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, R.: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been . . , (1998)

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