Newspaper articles
M monograph
See below for more information:
The type of reference (i.e. citation) is identified by a single letter, as follows:
M monograph c anthology n newspaper articles j periodical articles
Standard patent for doctoral thesis research report
An article
For files that do not belong to the above types, use the letter "z" to identify them.
Identification of common electronic files and carrier types:
[db/ol]- Online data (database online)
A database on tape.
[M/CD]- CD monograph
[CP/DK]- Disk software (computer program on disk)
Online serial
[EB/ol]- Online bulletin board system.
As for asterisks and numbers, do you think the citation order is indicated in the paper?