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

Zaumseil J (2014) Applied physics. Electronic control of circularly polarized light emission. Science 344:702–703

A journal article with 2 authors

Sriver RL, Huber M (2007) Observational evidence for an ocean heat pump induced by tropical cyclones. Nature 447:577–580

A journal article with 3 authors

Barwick B, Flannigan DJ, Zewail AH (2009) Photon-induced near-field electron microscopy. Nature 462:902–906

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kiers ET, Duhamel M, Beesetty Y, et al (2011) Reciprocal rewards stabilize cooperation in the mycorrhizal symbiosis. Science 333:880–882

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korst J, Pronk V (2006) Multimedia Storage and Retrieval. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hedberg C, do Carmo RM (2012) Translocal Ruralism: Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Yang K, Shekhar AH, Oliver D, Shekhar S (2013) Capacity-Constrained Network-Voronoi Diagram: A Summary of Results. In: Nascimento MA, Sellis T, Cheng R, et al (eds) Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases: 13th International Symposium, SSTD 2013, Munich, Germany, August 21-23, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 56–73

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

Andrews R (2016) Rick Perry Set To Head Department Of Energy Despite Once Forgetting It Existed. 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 (1995) Railroad Safety: Status of Efforts to Improve Railroad Crossing Safety. 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

Gaines M (2017) Perceptions of knowledge sharing within hybrid learning environments: As iron sharpens iron among graduate students. 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

Ahmed A, Semple K (2017) Hurricane Gains Force And Targets Caribbean. New York Times A8

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