How to format your references using the Constellations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Constellations. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kumar, Subrat. “Extinction Need Not Be Forever.” Nature 492, no. 7427 (December 6, 2012): 9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shapiro, Nikolai M., and Ivan Koulakov. “Geophysics. Probing the Underbelly of a Supervolcano.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348, no. 6236 (May 15, 2015): 758–59.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang, Chun Y., Michael A. Ayliffe, and Jeremy N. Timmis. “Direct Measurement of the Transfer Rate of Chloroplast DNA into the Nucleus.” Nature 422, no. 6927 (March 6, 2003): 72–76.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Fors, Yvonne, Håkan Grudd, Anders Rindby, Farideh Jalilehvand, Magnus Sandström, Ingemar Cato, and Lennart Bornmalm. “Sulfur and Iron Accumulation in Three Marine-Archaeological Shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea: The Ghost, the Crown and the Sword.” Scientific Reports 4 (February 27, 2014): 4222.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Packard, Ashley. Digital Media Law. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

An edited book

Thomson, Madeleine C., Ricardo Garcia-Herrera, and Martin Beniston, eds. Seasonal Forecasts, Climatic Change and Human Health: Health and Climate. Vol. 30. Advances in Global Change Research. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Bergh, C. de, E. L. Schaller, M. E. Brown, R. Brunetto, D. P. Cruikshank, and B. Schmitt. “The Ices on Transneptunian Objects and Centaurs.” In The Science of Solar System Ices, edited by Murthy S. Gudipati and Julie Castillo-Rogez, 107–46. Astrophysics and Space Science Library. New York, NY: Springer, 2013.

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 Constellations.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. “Accidental Warning Of Colossal Earthquake Causes Momentary Panic In Japan.” IFLScience. IFLScience, August 3, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/accidental-warning-colossal-earthquake-momentary-panic-japan/.

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. “National Airspace System: Status of Wide Area Augmentation System Project.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 30, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hudson, Kimberly Renee. “Student Perception of Teachers’ National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and California Commission on Teacher Credentialing Dispositions.” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2012.

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

Norris, Mary. “FROM BROTHER TO SISTER.” New York Times, November 5, 2010.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Constellations
Abbreviation	Constellations
ISSN (online)	1467-8675
Scope	General Psychology General Social Sciences