How to format your references using the Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology. 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

Allshire, R.: Molecular biology. RNAi and heterochromatin--a hushed-up affair. Science. 297, 1818–1819 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Feinberg, E.H., Hunter, C.P.: Transport of dsRNA into cells by the transmembrane protein SID-1. Science. 301, 1545–1547 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Sobolev, A.V., Hofmann, A.W., Nikogosian, I.K.: Recycled oceanic crust observed in “ghost plagioclase” within the source of Mauna Loa lavas. Nature. 404, 986–990 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Osterloo, M.M., Hamilton, V.E., Bandfield, J.L., Glotch, T.D., Baldridge, A.M., Christensen, P.R., Tornabene, L.L., Anderson, F.S.: Chloride-bearing materials in the southern highlands of Mars. Science. 319, 1651–1654 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, G.L.: Investing with the Trend. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Barneva, R.P., Brimkov, V.E., Šlapal, J. eds: Combinatorial Image Analysis: 16th International Workshop, IWCIA 2014, Brno, Czech Republic, May 28-30, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Cardoso, A.R., Queliconi, B.B., Kowaltowski, A.J.: Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species in Myocardial Pre- and Postconditioning. In: Sauer, H., Shah, A.M., and Laurindo, F.R.M. (eds.) Studies on Cardiovascular Disorders. pp. 109–123. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ (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 Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Could There Be Earth Fossils On The Moon?, https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-there-be-earth-fossils-could-survive-impact-moon/

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: Wallop-Breaux Trust Fund. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1988)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fouts, J.: A mental health outreach program for adolescent gang members and at-risk youth: A grant writing project, (2014)

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

Vecsey, G.: Hostesses as Recruiters? How Far Is Too Far?, (2009)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Allshire 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Allshire 2002; Feinberg and Hunter 2003).

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

Two authors: (Feinberg and Hunter 2003)
Three or more authors: (Osterloo et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology
Abbreviation	Comput. Astrophys. Cosmol.
ISSN (online)	2197-7909
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