How to format your references using the CEAS Aeronautical Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for CEAS Aeronautical Journal. 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

Begley, C.G.: Six red flags for suspect work. Nature. 497, 433–434 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Dickson, D., Abbott, A.: Britain asks to join European Southern Observatory. Nature. 405, 382–383 (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wong, C.P., Luo, S., Zhang, Z.: MICROELECTRONICS: Flip the Chip. Science. 290, 2269–2270 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, X., Li, Y., Crise, B., Burgess, S.M.: Transcription start regions in the human genome are favored targets for MLV integration. Science. 300, 1749–1751 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michaud, T.: Innovation, Between Science and Science Fiction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2017)

An edited book

Pye, K.: Aeolian Sand and Sand Dunes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Neubert, B.J., Scharfe, W.-D.: Laser Systems Beam Characteristics, Metrology, and Standards. In: Bachmann, F., Loosen, P., and Poprawe, R. (eds.) High Power Diode Lasers: Technology and Applications. pp. 181–213. Springer, New York, NY (2007)

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 CEAS Aeronautical Journal.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J.: Metallic Glass Alloys Could Be Stronger Than Steel But As Malleable As Putty, https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/recipe-metallic-glass-alloys-stronger-steel-malleable-putty-created/

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: FTS 2001 Implementation Issues. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2001)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Heyen, C.: Two predictors of smoking behaviors in the LGBTQ population: Anxiety and internalized homophobia, (2015)

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

Montague, J.: A Storied Name in Soccer Faces an Uncertain Future, (2017)

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	CEAS Aeronautical Journal
Abbreviation	CEAS Aeronaut. J.
ISSN (print)	1869-5582
ISSN (online)	1869-5590
Scope	Aerospace Engineering Transportation