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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

McBain CJ (2012) Neuroscience. Decoding the neuronal Tower of Babel. Science 338:482–483

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedman JS, Walter MA (2002) Biomedicine. Under pressure. Science 295:983–984

A journal article with 3 authors

Hornbach MJ, Saffer DM, Holbrook WS (2004) Critically pressured free-gas reservoirs below gas-hydrate provinces. Nature 427:142–144

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tzedakis PC, Roucoux KH, de Abreu L, Shackleton NJ (2004) The duration of forest stages in southern Europe and interglacial climate variability. Science 306:2231–2235

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rhee MY (2013) Wireless Mobile Internet Security. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Cuellar J, Maibaum T, Sere K (2008) FM 2008: Formal Methods: 15th International Symposium on Formal Methods, Turku, Finland, May 26-30, 2008 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Barbasch D, Ciubotaru D (2015) Ladder representations of GL ( n , ℚ p ) $$\mathrm{GL}(n, \mathbb{Q}_{p})$$. In: Nevins M, Trapa PE (eds) Representations of Reductive Groups: In Honor of the 60th Birthday of David A. Vogan, Jr. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 117–137

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 D (2016) There’s A Test That Tells You If You’re A “Super-Recognizer” Of Faces, And You Can Take It Right Now. 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 (1996) Telecommunications: Initiatives Taken by Three States to Promote Increased Access and Investment. 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

Zhu M (2017) Numerical Investigation of Encapsulation Technology in Polymer Flooding Processes. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Kishkovsky S (2000) Woodstock on the Volga: Protest Ages Into Singalong. New York Times E2

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