How to format your references using the mUX: The Journal of Mobile User Experience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for mUX: The Journal of Mobile User Experience. 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

Cohen J (2014) Breakdown + Breakdown runners-up. Science 346:1450–1451

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuwahara H, Gao X (2013) Stochastic effects as a force to increase the complexity of signaling networks. Sci Rep 3:2297

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim D, Son S-W, Jeong H (2014) Large-scale quantitative analysis of painting arts. Sci Rep 4:7370

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Berezovsky J, Mikkelsen MH, Gywat O, et al (2006) Nondestructive optical measurements of a single electron spin in a quantum dot. Science 314:1916–1920

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaisford S, Saunders M (2012) Essentials of Pharmaceutical Preformulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

C.M. Ehren M (2016) Methods and Modalities of Effective School Inspections. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Gilbert-Barness E, Spicer DE, Steffensen TS (2014) Hydrops, Cystic Hygroma, Fetal Hydrothorax, and Fetal Ascites. In: Spicer DE, Steffensen TS (eds) Handbook of Pediatric Autopsy Pathology. Springer, New York, NY, pp 171–180

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 mUX: The Journal of Mobile User Experience.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) The Loss Of Large Herbivores Can Alter Ecosystems For Thousands Of Years. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/loss-large-herbivores-can-alter-ecosystems-thousands-years/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1998) Highway Trust Fund: Financial Condition as of September 30, 1997. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stanford V (2016) Finding theatre from within: Augusto Boal’s Games for Non-Actors in an Introduction to Acting class. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

MacFARQUHAR N (2017) Closed Before It Opens. New York Times C1

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	mUX: The Journal of Mobile User Experience
ISSN (online)	2196-873X
Scope