How to format your references using the Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. 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

Metzger, T.H.: Applied physics. Squeezing x-ray photons. Science. 297, 205–206 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Kirzhner, T., Koren, G.: Pairing and the phase diagram of the normal coherence length ξN(T, x) above Tc of La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO4 thin films probed by the Josephson effect. Sci. Rep. 4, 6244 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Werlen, G., Hausmann, B., Palmer, E.: A motif in the alphabeta T-cell receptor controls positive selection by modulating ERK activity. Nature. 406, 422–426 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Raffaele, S., Farrer, R.A., Cano, L.M., Studholme, D.J., MacLean, D., Thines, M., Jiang, R.H.Y., Zody, M.C., Kunjeti, S.G., Donofrio, N.M., Meyers, B.C., Nusbaum, C., Kamoun, S.: Genome evolution following host jumps in the Irish potato famine pathogen lineage. Science. 330, 1540–1543 (2010)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, C., Lin, J.: Microwave Noncontact Motion Sensing and Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013)

An edited book

Stepanova, M., Dew, S. eds: Nanofabrication: Techniques and Principles. Springer, Vienna (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Fujita, S., Ito, K., Godoy, S.: Quantum Statistics of Composites. In: Ito, K. and Godoy, S. (eds.) Quantum Theory of Conducting Matter: Superconductivity. pp. 61–71. Springer, New York, NY (2009)

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 Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Enormous Centipede Spotted in Texas, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/huge-centipede-found-garner-state-park-texas/

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: Rail Safety: The Federal Railroad Administration Is Better Targeting Its Oversight, but Needs to Assess the Impact of Its Efforts. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2007)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

He, H.: Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Flows in a Pulse Detonation Engine by the Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method, (2006)

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

Kovaleski, S.F., Alter, A.: Intrigue Grows Over New Book by Harper Lee, (2015)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Metzger 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kirzhner and Koren 2014; Metzger 2002).

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

Two authors: (Kirzhner and Koren 2014)
Three or more authors: (Raffaele et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
Abbreviation	Celest. Mech. Dyn. Astron.
ISSN (print)	0923-2958
ISSN (online)	1572-9478
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics