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

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

Heller, E.: Electrons in the looking glass. Nature. 403, 489, 491 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, J., Zhao, Y.: Formation of zirconium metallic glass. Nature. 430, 332–335 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Chakraborty, S., Yanchulova, P., Thiemens, M.H.: Mass-independent oxygen isotopic partitioning during gas-phase SiO2 formation. Science. 342, 463–466 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fujisawa, T., Austing, D.G., Tokura, Y., Hirayama, Y., Tarucha, S.: Allowed and forbidden transitions in artificial hydrogen and helium atoms. Nature. 419, 278–281 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moeller, R.: IT Audit, Control, and Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Braak, H.: Neuroanatomy and Pathology of Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Echtle, K., Kimmeskamp, T.: Verification of a Control System Built Using Remote Redundancy by Means of Timed Automata and State Space Exploration. In: Müller-Clostermann, B., Echtle, K., and Rathgeb, E.P. (eds.) Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of Computing Systems and Dependability and Fault Tolerance: 15th International GI/ITG Conference, MMB&DFT 2010, Essen, Germany, March 15-17, 2010. Proceedings. pp. 8–23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

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 Space Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: The Universe Really Is Weird: A Landmark Quantum Experiment Has Finally Proved It So, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/universe-really-weird-landmark-quantum-experiment-has-finally-proved-it-so/

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: Narcotic Addiction Treatment and Rehabilitation Programs in New York City. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1973)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hasbini, M.A.: The Great Recession of 2007 and the Housing Market Crash: Why Did So Many Builders Fail? Lessons for the Local Homebuilding Industry, (2017)

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

Hollander, S.: Staten Island Wins Championship of Class A League Again, (2002)

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 Space Journal
Abbreviation	CEAS Space J.
ISSN (print)	1868-2502
ISSN (online)	1868-2510
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Aerospace Engineering