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

Lévy-Leblond, J.M.: Science’s fiction. Nature. 413, 573 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Minkov, M., Savona, V.: Automated optimization of photonic crystal slab cavities. Sci. Rep. 4, 5124 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wittkopp, P.J., Haerum, B.K., Clark, A.G.: Evolutionary changes in cis and trans gene regulation. Nature. 430, 85–88 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Du, J., Wang, Q., Jiang, G., Xu, C., Zhao, C., Xiang, Y., Chen, Y., Wen, S., Zhang, H.: Ytterbium-doped fiber laser passively mode locked by few-layer Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) saturable absorber functioned with evanescent field interaction. Sci. Rep. 4, 6346 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beach, G.J.: The U.S. Technology Skills Gap. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013)

An edited book

Luo, A.C.J.: System Dynamics with Interaction Discontinuity. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Saad, A.P.B.M., Syahrom, A., Harun, M.N., Kadir, M.R.A.: Effect of Design Parameter Towards Wear Generation. In: Syahrom, A., Harun, M.N., and Kadir, M.R.A. (eds.) Wear Prediction on Total Ankle Replacement: Effect of Design Parameters. pp. 43–53. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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.: Sad But Adorable Animal Facts That Will Ruin Your Day

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: HHS’s Efforts to Promote Health Information Technology and Legal Barriers to Its Adoption. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2004)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Roy Chowdhury, T.: Tracking Carbon Flow during Methane Oxidation into Methanotrophs Using 13C-PLFA Labeling in Pulsing Freshwater Wetlands, (2012)

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

Wagner, J.: Already Loaded With Talent, Cubs May Get a Slugger Back From an Injury, (2016)

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