How to format your references using the Advances in Space Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Space Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Colman, S.M., 2002. Paleoclimate. A fresh look at glacial floods. Science 296, 1251–1252.

A journal article with 2 authors

Collier, P., Alles, C.M., 2010. Materials science. Materials ecology: an industrial perspective. Science 330, 919–920.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roy, K., Bandyopadhyay, S., Atulasimha, J., 2013. Binary switching in a “symmetric” potential landscape. Sci. Rep. 3, 3038.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Piot, P., Feachem, R.G.A., Lee, J.-W., Wolfensohn, J.D., 2004. Public health. A global response to AIDS: lessons learned, next steps. Science 304, 1909–1910.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hetherington, S., 2011. How to Know. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Kireyev, D., Hung, J. (Eds.), 2016. Cardiac Imaging in Clinical Practice, 1st ed. 2016. ed, In Clinical Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Muttaqin, T., van Duijn, M., Heyse, L., Wittek, R., 2016. The Impact of Decentralization on Educational Attainment in Indonesia, in: Holzhacker, R.L., Wittek, R., Woltjer, J. (Eds.), Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 79–103.

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 Advances in Space Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Oldest Known Rock Discovered [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/oldest-known-rock-discovered/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Determination of Costs Relating to the Environmental Education Act (No. HRD-78-37). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ryan, B.A., 2012. Computer-Based Versus Paper-Pencil Modes of Administration United States Government End of Course Exams: Student Cumulative Grade Point Averages as Predictors of Success (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

St. John Kelly, E., 1997. Whose Hat? New York Times 93.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Colman, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Collier and Alles, 2010; Colman, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Collier and Alles, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Piot et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Space Research
Abbreviation	Adv. Space Res.
ISSN (print)	0273-1177
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Aerospace Engineering