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

Willig, M. R.: Ecology. Biodiversity and productivity, Science, 333, 1709–1710, 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schacter, D. L. and Addis, D. R.: Constructive memory: the ghosts of past and future, Nature, 445, 27, 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hsu, A.-L., Murphy, C. T., and Kenyon, C.: Regulation of aging and age-related disease by DAF-16 and heat-shock factor, Science, 300, 1142–1145, 2003.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Joint, I., Tait, K., Callow, M. E., Callow, J. A., Milton, D., Williams, P., and Cámara, M.: Cell-to-cell communication across the prokaryote-eukaryote boundary, Science, 298, 1207, 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jaitly, R.: Practical Operational Due Diligence on Hedge Funds, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

Buttà, P.: Mathematical Models of Viscous Friction, edited by: Cavallaro, G. and Marchioro, C., Springer International Publishing, Cham, XIV, 134 p. 5 illus pp., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Strange, H. and Zwiggelaar, R.: Intrinsic Dimensionality, in: Open Problems in Spectral Dimensionality Reduction, edited by: Zwiggelaar, R., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 41–52, 2014.

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

What Would Happen If The International Space Station Was Hit By A Meteoroid?

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: A Capsule Version of: Nanomanufacturing--Emergence and Implications for U.S. Competitiveness, the Environment, and Human Health, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Satam, G. C.: The mechanical engineering approach for three dimensional modeling procedure and measurements of the heart anatomy, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Wagner, J.: For the Mets, a Middleman on Call 24/7, New York Times, 19th November, D1, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willig, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Schacter and Addis, 2007; Willig, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Schacter and Addis, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Joint et al., 2002)

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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