How to format your references using the Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing. 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

Bornens, M. (2012). The centrosome in cells and organisms. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6067), 422–426.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zaccolo, M., & Pozzan, T. (2002). Discrete microdomains with high concentration of cAMP in stimulated rat neonatal cardiac myocytes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5560), 1711–1715.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ash, C., Foley, J., & Pennisi, E. (2008). Microbial ecology. Lost in microbial space. Special section introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5879), 1027.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jeon, S., Jang, J. Y., Youn, J. R., Jeong, J.-H., Brenner, H., & Song, Y. S. (2013). Fullerene embedded shape memory nanolens array. Scientific reports, 3, 3269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandra, S. (2016). Energy, Entropy and Engines. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Raman, C., Goldsmith, M. R., & Agunbiade, T. A. (Eds.). (2016). Short Views on Insect Genomics and Proteomics: Insect Proteomics, Vol.2 (Vol. 4). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Saakov, V. S., Drapkin, V. Z., Krivchenko, A. I., Rozengart, E. V., Bogachev, Y. V., & Knyazev, M. N. (2013). Applicability of the DSHO Method in Work with Pigments of Plants and Animals. In V. Z. Drapkin, A. I. Krivchenko, E. V. Rozengart, Y. V. Bogachev, & M. N. Knyazev (Eds.), Derivative Spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectroscopy for Ecological and Biological Questions (pp. 197–299). Vienna: Springer.

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 Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, December 27). Skywatching Events Not To Miss In 2014. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1988). ADP Modernization: FCC’s Automation Planning Is Inadequate (No. IMTEC-88-51). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lam, N. N. (2013). The effect of racial disparities and adult supervision in Human Papillomavirus knowledge among female adolescents (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Whiteside, K. (2017, August 29). In Family’s Footsteps, Minor Takes Big Stage. New York Times, p. B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bornens 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bornens 2012; Zaccolo and Pozzan 2002).

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

Two authors: (Zaccolo and Pozzan 2002)
Three or more authors: (Jeon et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing
Abbreviation	Multidimens. Syst. Signal Process.
ISSN (print)	0923-6082
ISSN (online)	1573-0824
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Computer Science Applications Hardware and Architecture Information Systems Signal Processing Software Applied Mathematics