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

Edgerton D (2011) In praise of Luddism. Nature 471:27–29

A journal article with 2 authors

Nelson EC, Braun PV (2007) Chemistry. Enhancing colloids through the surface. Science 318:924–925

A journal article with 3 authors

Szemenyei H, Hannon M, Long JA (2008) TOPLESS mediates auxin-dependent transcriptional repression during Arabidopsis embryogenesis. Science 319:1384–1386

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Crawford JM, Korman TP, Labonte JW, et al (2009) Structural basis for biosynthetic programming of fungal aromatic polyketide cyclization. Nature 461:1139–1143

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Häberlin H (2012) Photovoltaics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Battaglia E (2009) Annegamento Soccorso tecnico e sanitario. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Cullinane K, Cullinane S, Wang T (2016) A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Container Ports in China and the Implications for Their Development. In: Lee PT-W, Cullinane K (eds) Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy: Volume 1: Applying Theory to Practice in Maritime Logistics. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 79–101

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) Why Is Hawaii Bent? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/curious-bend-hawaiian-emperor-seamount-chain-caused-misbehaving-mantle-plume/. 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 (1991) Freight Trucking: Promising Approach for Predicting Carriers’ Safety Risks. 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

Bailoor S (2016) Implicit-Explicit Time stepping for a Two-Dimensional Inviscid Fluid-Structure Interaction Solver. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Gordon MR, Schmitt E, Haberman M (2017) Trump Chooses A ‘Path Forward’ For Afghanistan. New York Times A1

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