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

Govindan R (2014) Cancer. Attack of the clones. Science 346:169–170

A journal article with 2 authors

Benfey PN, Mitchell-Olds T (2008) From genotype to phenotype: systems biology meets natural variation. Science 320:495–497

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoehler TM, Bebout BM, Des Marais DJ (2001) The role of microbial mats in the production of reduced gases on the early Earth. Nature 412:324–327

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim H, Doan VD, Cho WJ, et al (2014) Anisotropic charge distribution and anisotropic van der Waals radius leading to intriguing anisotropic noncovalent interactions. Sci Rep 4:5826

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dooner DB (2012) Kinematic Geometry of Gearing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Sala E (2008) Radiology for Surgeons in Clinical Practice. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Liu C, Gong Z (2014) Optimal Control of Nonlinear Multistage Systems. In: Gong Z (ed) Optimal Control of Switched Systems Arising in Fermentation Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–76

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

Andrew E (2015) This is What 200 Calories Worth Of Different Foods Looks Like. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-200-calories-looks-different-foods/. 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 (2010) Telecommunications: Information Collection and Management at the Federal Communications Commission. 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

Ichiyama J (2014) Early goal-directed therapy in adult septic patients. 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

Koblin J (2017) For HBO, Storm Clouds Gather Over What Should Be a Smashing Summer. New York Times B1

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