How to format your references using the Stephan Mueller Special Publication Series citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Stephan Mueller Special Publication Series. 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

Zhang, C.-T.: A novel triangle mapping technique to study the h-index based citation distribution, Sci. Rep., 3, 1023, 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

Korup, O. and Montgomery, D. R.: Tibetan plateau river incision inhibited by glacial stabilization of the Tsangpo gorge, Nature, 455, 786–789, 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mendoza, M., Succi, S., and Herrmann, H. J.: Flow through randomly curved manifolds, Sci. Rep., 3, 3106, 2013.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Xiang, Z., Kasahara, Y., Asaba, T., Lawson, B., Tinsman, C., Chen, L., Sugimoto, K., Kawaguchi, S., Sato, Y., Li, G., Yao, S., Chen, Y. L., Iga, F., Singleton, J., Matsuda, Y., and Li, L.: Quantum oscillations of electrical resistivity in an insulator, Science, 362, 65–69, 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blair, R.: Organic Production and Food Quality, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

Adan, O. C. G. and Samson, R. A. (Eds.): Fundamentals of mold growth in indoor environments and strategies for healthy living, Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Approx. 525 p. 105 illus., 45 illus. in color pp., 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Diao, L., Wang, D., Peng, Z., and Guo, L.: Neural Dynamic Surface Control for Three-Phase PWM Voltage Source Rectifier, in: Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2015: 12th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2015, Jeju, South Korea, October 15-18, 2015, Proceedings, edited by: Hu, X., Xia, Y., Zhang, Y., and Zhao, D., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 28–35, 2015.

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 Stephan Mueller Special Publication Series.

Blog post

Chew On This: We Finally Know How Our Jaws Evolved: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chew-on-this-we-finally-know-how-our-jaws-evolved/, last access: 30 October 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: Biotechnology: Agriculture’s Regulatory System Needs Clarification, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Fisher, M. D.: The impact adult supervision, role models, and civic engagement has on the health status of adolescents, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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

Pilon, M.: Wust Reclaims Gold in 3,000, New York Times, 10th February, D9, 2014.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Zhang, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Korup and Montgomery, 2008; Zhang, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Korup and Montgomery, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Xiang et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Stephan Mueller Special Publication Series
Abbreviation	Stephan Mueller Spec. Publ. Ser.
ISSN (print)	1868-4556
ISSN (online)	1868-4564
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