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

Montgomery, M. H. (2008). Astronomy. The pulse of distant stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5901), 536–537.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lukacs-Kornek, V., & Turley, S. J. (2008). Immunology. Chaperone puts the brakes on. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5908), 1640–1641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oerlemans, J., Dahl-Jensen, D., & Masson-Delmotte, V. (2006). Ice sheets and sea level. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5790), 1043–5; author reply 1043-5.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Iwamoto, N., Umeda, H., Tominaga, N., Nomoto, K., & Maeda, K. (2005). The first chemical enrichment in the universe and the formation of hyper metal-poor stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5733), 451–453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Labuszewski, J. W., Nyhoff, J. E., Co, R., & Peterson, P. E. (2010). The CME Group Risk Management Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vaudenay, S. (Ed.). (2006). Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2006: 24th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 28 - June 1, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 4004). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Argatov, I., & Mishuris, G. (2015). Frictionless Contact of Thin Viscoelastic Layers. In G. Mishuris (Ed.), Contact Mechanics of Articular Cartilage Layers: Asymptotic Models (pp. 99–147). 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

Davis, J. (2017, May 11). Multimillion-Dollar Stradivarius Violins Sound No Better Than Modern Instruments. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/multimilliondollar-stradivarius-violins-sound-no-better-than-modern-instruments/. 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. (1993). GAO Rolodex Cards (No. 148869). 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

Escobedo, K. (2017). Sana Mente Center (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

Sisario, B., & Coscarelli, J. (2017, February 9). It’s Adele vs. Beyoncé. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Montgomery 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lukacs-Kornek and Turley 2008; Montgomery 2008).

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

Two authors: (Lukacs-Kornek and Turley 2008)
Three or more authors: (Iwamoto et al. 2005)

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

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