How to format your references using the Multiple Sclerosis and Demyelinating Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Multiple Sclerosis and Demyelinating Disorders. 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

1. Bickford D. Animal behavior: male parenting of New Guinea froglets. Nature. 2002;418:601–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hasty P, Vijg J. Aging. Genomic priorities in aging. Science. 2002;296:1250–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Elf J, Li G-W, Xie XS. Probing transcription factor dynamics at the single-molecule level in a living cell. Science. 2007;316:1191–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Keck JM, Jones MH, Wong CCL, Binkley J, Chen D, Jaspersen SL, et al. A cell cycle phosphoproteome of the yeast centrosome. Science. 2011;332:1557–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bayés de Luna A. Clinical Arrhythmology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Ferrarese G, Bini D, editors. Introduction to Relativistic Continuum Mechanics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Marwala T, Lagazio M. Support Vector Machines for Modeling Interstate Conflict. In: Lagazio M, editor. Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence. London: Springer; 2011. p. 89–105.

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 Multiple Sclerosis and Demyelinating Disorders.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. World’s Most Ambitious Project To Explore Atlantic Ocean Kicks Off [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-most-ambitious-project-to-explore-atlantic-ocean-kicks-off/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Health Information Technology: CMS Took Steps to Improve Its Beneficiary Eligibility Verification System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Sep. Report No.: GAO-12-973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Yanez AM. Chicano and Black radical activism of the 1960s: A comparison between the Brown Berets and the Black Panther Party in California [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2010.

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

1. Dominus I by S. ‘You Have to Keep Putting Yourself Out There.’ New York Times. 2014 Dec 19;MM14.

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	Multiple Sclerosis and Demyelinating Disorders
Abbreviation	Mult. Scler. Demyelinating Disord.
ISSN (online)	2056-6115
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