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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aerospace Science and Technology. 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

[1]

P. Trainor, Development. The bills of qucks and duails, Science 299 (2003) 523–524.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.J. Corcoran, W.E. Conner, Bats jamming bats: food competition through sonar interference, Science 346 (2014) 745–747.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Gu, A.R. Koymen, S.K. Mohanty, Crystalline magnetic carbon nanoparticle assisted photothermal delivery into cells using CW near-infrared laser beam, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5106.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L.V. Ryazanova, Z. Hu, S. Suzuki, V. Chubanov, A. Fleig, A.G. Ryazanov, Elucidating the role of the TRPM7 alpha-kinase: TRPM7 kinase inactivation leads to magnesium deprivation resistance phenotype in mice, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7599.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H.-G. Elias, Macromolecules, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

S. Dustdar, Service Engineering: European Research Results, Springer, Vienna, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Zhao, F.F. Dai, Design and Analysis of QVCO with Various Coupling Techniques, in: F.F. Dai (Ed.), Low-Noise Low-Power Design for Phase-Locked Loops: Multi-Phase High-Performance Oscillators, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 41–65.

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 Aerospace Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Controversies In Medicine: The Rise And Fall Of The Challenge To Tamiflu, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/controversies-medicine-rise-and-fall-challenge-tamiflu/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Examination of the Treatment of Peer Reviewers’ Comments on Support for the “Individualized Science Instructional System” Project, 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

[1]

E.I. Sadr, To whisper in the king’s ear: Economists in Pahlavi and Islamic Iran, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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

[1]

M. Billard, Saving the World. Smelling Good, Too, New York Times (2010) E6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Aerospace Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Aerosp. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1270-9638
Scope	Aerospace Engineering