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. Honjo T. Obituary: Yasutomi Nishizuka (1932-2004). Nature. 2004;432:966.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gluckman PD, Hanson MA. Living with the past: evolution, development, and patterns of disease. Science. 2004;305:1733–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nosil P, Crespi BJ, Sandoval CP. Host-plant adaptation drives the parallel evolution of reproductive isolation. Nature. 2002;417:440–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cuzzi JN, Burns JA, Charnoz S, Clark RN, Colwell JE, Dones L, et al. An evolving view of Saturn’s dynamic rings. Science. 2010;327:1470–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Nations S. The Complete Book of Option Spreads and Combinations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Mago VK, Dabbaghian V, editors. Computational Models of Complex Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Salem B, Peeters H. InterCUBE: A Study into Merging Action and Interaction Spaces. In: Baranauskas C, Palanque P, Abascal J, Barbosa SDJ, editors. Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007: 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 57–70.

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. Fracking Causes Over 12 Toxic Spills Per Week In The US [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fracking-causes-12-toxic-spills-per-week-us/

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. Direct Student Loans: Additional Steps Would Increase Borrowers’ Awareness of Electronic Debiting and Reduce Federal Administrative Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Mar. Report No.: GAO-02-350.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Templeton TH. The Impact of Emergent Information and Communication Technology on Peacebuilding [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2017.

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. Vecsey G. The Place Is Rocking, and So Are the Knicks. New York Times. 2010 Dec 16;B17.

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
Scope

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