How to format your references using the ASTRA Proceedings citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ASTRA Proceedings. 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

Ingebritsen, S. E.: Geochemistry. Modeling the formation of porphyry-copper ores, Science, 338, 1551–1552, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lardner, B. and bin Lakim, M.: Animal communication: tree-hole frogs exploit resonance effects, Nature, 420, 475, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hacker, J., Hentschel, U., and Dobrindt, U.: Prokaryotic chromosomes and disease, Science, 301, 790–793, 2003.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Könneke, M., Bernhard, A. E., de la Torre, J. R., Walker, C. B., Waterbury, J. B., and Stahl, D. A.: Isolation of an autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing marine archaeon, Nature, 437, 543–546, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernandes, R.: Local and Regional Flaps in Head & Neck Reconstruction, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

Bloem, R. and Lipp, P. (Eds.): Trusted Systems: 5th International Conference, INTRUST 2013, Graz, Austria, December 4-5, 2013, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, XII, 103 p. 18 illus p., 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., and Cordaro, F.: Self-Regulatory Interplay Between Negative and Positive Emotions: The Case of Loneliness and Nostalgia, in: Emotion Regulation and Well-Being, edited by: Nyklíček, I., Vingerhoets, A., and Zeelenberg, M., Springer, New York, NY, 67–83, 2011.

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 ASTRA Proceedings.

Blog post

Hamilton, K.: Coffee Won’t Give You Cancer, Unless It’s Very Very Hot, Then It Might, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/coffee-wont-give-you-cancer-unless-its-very-very-hot-then-it-might/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2016., 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: Head Start: Undercover Testing Finds Fraud and Abuse at Selected Head Start Centers, GAO-10-1049, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hannington, R. L.: Power and display in the court music of Augustus the Strong: The influences affecting the composition of Johann David Heinichens’s sinfonias, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2011.

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

Hartocollis, A.: Celebrations Of Diversity ln Distinct Ceremonies, , New York Times2nd JuneA11, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ingebritsen, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Ingebritsen, 2012; Lardner and bin Lakim, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Lardner and bin Lakim, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Könneke et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	ASTRA Proceedings
ISSN (print)	2199-3955
ISSN (online)	2199-3963
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