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 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

Aarestrup, F.: Sustainable farming: Get pigs off antibiotics, Nature, 486, 465–466, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaleeba, J. A. R. and Berger, E. A.: Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus fusion-entry receptor: cystine transporter xCT, Science, 311, 1921–1924, 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saeed, Y., Singh, N., and Schwingenschlögl, U.: Superior thermoelectric response in the 3R phases of hydrated NaxRhO2, Sci. Rep., 4, 4390, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Kilinc, D., Blasiak, A., O’Mahony, J. J., and Lee, G. U.: Low piconewton towing of CNS axons against diffusing and surface-bound repellents requires the inhibition of motor protein-associated pathways, Sci. Rep., 4, 7128, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harrington, P. J.: Pharmaceutical Process Chemistry for Synthesis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Plonsey, R.: Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach, Third Edition., edited by: Barr, R. C., Springer US, Boston, MA, XIV, 528 p p., 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Joarde, R. and Crundwell, N.: Basic Patterns of Lung Disease, in: Chest X-Ray in Clinical Practice, edited by: Joarde, R. and Crundwell, N., Springer, London, 55–56, 2009.

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

Andrew, E.: New Blood Test Could Diagnose Depression, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-blood-test-could-diagnose-depression/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2014., 2014.

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: An Experimental Computer Output Microfilm Service Center, 092324, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Curiel, A. R.: A re-examination of the Meyers and Volbrecht motor equation for the identification of suspect effort, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2013.

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

Koblin, J.: Patriots’ Super Bowl Victory Features a Big Comeback, Just Not for N.F.L. Ratings, , New York Times6th FebruaryB3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aarestrup, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Aarestrup, 2012; Kaleeba and Berger, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Kaleeba and Berger, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kilinc et al., 2014)

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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