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

Campbell P (2001) Declaration of financial interests. Nature 412:751

A journal article with 2 authors

Richmond BG, Jungers WL (2008) Orrorin tugenensis femoral morphology and the evolution of hominin bipedalism. Science 319:1662–1665

A journal article with 3 authors

Jasny BR, Kelner KL, Pennisi E (2008) Genetics of behavior. From genes to social behavior. Introduction. Science 322:891

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Abi-Rached L, Jobin MJ, Kulkarni S, et al (2011) The shaping of modern human immune systems by multiregional admixture with archaic humans. Science 334:89–94

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shaw MT (2011) Introduction to Polymer Rheology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Mohamad Zain J, Wan Mohd WM bt, El-Qawasmeh E (2011) Software Engineering and Computer Systems: Second International Conference, ICSECS 2011, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, June 27-29, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Martínez-Granero F, Redondo-Nieto M, Martín M, Rivilla R (2014) Phase Variation in Plant-Associated Pseudomonads. In: Katsy EI (ed) Plasticity in Plant-Growth-Promoting and Phytopathogenic Bacteria. Springer, New York, NY, pp 55–79

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

Carpineti A (2016) Can Geoengineering Save The Coral Reefs? In: IFLScience. 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 (1983) The Air Force Can Improve Its Maintenance Information Systems. 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

Grigoryan A (2015) Feedback 2.0 in online writing instruction: Combining audio-visual and text-based commentary to enhance student revision and writing competency. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Walsh MW (2013) Pension Ruling in Detroit Echoes West to California. New York Times A20

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