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

Smaglik, P.: Back to life, Nature, 429, 483, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lobanov, A. P. and Zensus, J. A.: A cosmic double helix in the archetypical quasar 3C273, Science, 294, 128–131, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oliveira, E. A., Andrade, J. S., Jr, and Makse, H. A.: Large cities are less green, Sci. Rep., 4, 4235, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Houze, R. A., Jr, Chen, S. S., Smull, B. F., Lee, W.-C., and Bell, M. M.: Hurricane intensity and eyewall replacement, Science, 315, 1235–1239, 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matignon, R.: Data Mining Using SAS® Enterprise Miner^TM, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

Olsen, H.: The Four Faces of the Republican Party: The Fight for the 2016 Presidential Nomination, edited by: Scala, D. J., Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, XII, 163 p pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Novak, J. H., Kasera, S. K., and Guan, Y.: Crytpo-Based Methods and Fingerprints, in: Digital Fingerprinting, edited by: Wang, C., Gerdes, R. M., Guan, Y., and Kasera, S. K., Springer, New York, NY, 39–68, 2016.

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

Trial Shows New Vaccine Safe And Effective Against 9 Strains Of HPV: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/trial-shows-new-vaccine-safe-and-effective-against-9-strains-hpv/, 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: Management of Research and Development in Electronics-Communications Equipment Needs Improvement, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McAvoy, D. L.: Coming of age with Shakespeare: The convergence of American youth culture and high culture since the 1980s, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2012.

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

Shpigel, B.: This Jet Still Answers to ‘Coach,’ New York Times, 15th September, D1, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Lobanov and Zensus, 2001; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Lobanov and Zensus, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Houze et al., 2007)

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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