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

Gavaghan, H. (2001). Biology moves into the silicon stage. Nature, 409(6822), 964.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scully, M. O., & Svidzinsky, A. A. (2009). Physics. The super of superradiance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5947), 1510–1511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Curtis, R., Groarke, A., & Sullivan, F. (2014). Stress and self-efficacy predict psychological adjustment at diagnosis of prostate cancer. Scientific reports, 4, 5569.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hill, S., Edwards, R. S., Aliaga-Alcalde, N., & Christou, G. (2003). Quantum coherence in an exchange-coupled dimer of single-molecule magnets. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5647), 1015–1018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anthony, B., Boudnik, K., Adams, C., Shao, B., Lee, C., & Sasaki, K. (2016). Professional Hadoop®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mayer, V. (2011). Distance Expanding Random Mappings, Thermodynamical Formalism, Gibbs Measures and Fractal Geometry. (M. Urbanski & B. Skorulski, Eds.) (Vol. 2036). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Preis, T., & Moat, H. S. (2015). Early Signs of Financial Market Moves Reflected by Google Searches. In B. Gonçalves & N. Perra (Eds.), Social Phenomena: From Data Analysis to Models (pp. 85–97). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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. (2015, August 5). White Shark Populations Are Growing. Here’s Why That’s Good News. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/white-shark-populations-are-growing-here-s-why-s-good-news/. 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. (2000). College Tuition and Fees: Changes in the 1995-96 to 1999-2000 Period Compared With Median Household Income (No. HEHS-00-198R). 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

Wang, N. (2015). Computational Studies on Biomolecular Diffusion and Electrostatics (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Grynbaum, M. M., & Koblin, J. (2017, June 7). Journalists Fear Effects Of an Arrest. New York Times, p. A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gavaghan 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Gavaghan 2001; Scully and Svidzinsky 2009).

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

Two authors: (Scully and Svidzinsky 2009)
Three or more authors: (Hill et al. 2003)

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