How to format your references using the Multiphase Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Multiphase Science and Technology (MST). 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

Smaglik, P., Making a Move on Mobility, Nature, vol. 435, no. 7042, p. 709, June 2, 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haass, C. and Kahle, P. J., Neuroscience. Parkin and Its Substrates, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 293, no. 5528, pp. 224–25, July 13, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Katsanis, S. H., Javitt, G. and Hudson, K., Public Health. A Case Study of Personalized Medicine, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 320, no. 5872, pp. 53–54, April 4, 2008.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rijavec, M., Korošec, P., Žavbi, M., Kern, I. and Malovrh, M. M., Let-7a Is Differentially Expressed in Bronchial Biopsies of Patients with Severe Asthma, Scientific Reports, vol. 4, p. 6103, August 18, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooper, N., Forrest, K. and Cramp, P., Essential Guide to Acute Care, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008.

An edited book

Merbach, W., The Long-Term Fertilization Trials in Halle (Saale), Germany: A Tool for Sustainable and Environmentally Compatible Land Management — Contributions of Plant Nutrition Science in Halle 13, Wiesbaden: DUV, VIII, 191 p, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Wayne, M. A., McCoy, A. M. and Utarnachitt, R. B., Emergency Medical Services and Atrial Fibrillation, in Short Stay Management of Atrial Fibrillation, W. F. Peacock and C. L. Clark, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 43–49, 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 Multiphase Science and Technology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., Plants Use Quantum Mechanics To Make Photosynthesis More Efficient, IFLScience, October 25, 2016.

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, Shifting the Government’s Automatic Data Processing Requirements to the Private Sector: Further Study and Better Guidance Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, FGMSD-78-22, Apr. 11, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Magallanes, J., Experiences with Formal and Informal Support: A Case Study of a Female-to-Male Transgender Individual, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 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

Joy, S., Dare to Be Daring, New York Times, November 30, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2005; Haass et al., 2001).

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

Two authors: (Haass et al., 2001)
Three or more authors: (Rijavec et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Multiphase Science and Technology
ISSN (print)	0276-1459
ISSN (online)	1943-6181
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