How to format your references using the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. 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

V. A. Kostelecký, “Precision measurement: The magnetic proton,” Nature 509(7502), 571–572 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

S. Kimura and K. Yoshioka, “Parathyroid hormone and parathyroid hormone type-1 receptor accelerate myocyte differentiation,” Sci. Rep. 4, 5066 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

H.-J. Kim, J.-H. Lee, and J.-H. Cho, “Antiferromagnetic Slater insulator phase of Na₂IrO₃,” Sci. Rep. 4, 5253 (2014).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

T. P. Denham et al., “Origins of agriculture at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of New Guinea,” Science 301(5630), 189–193 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

H. Shimizu, Shimizu’s Dermatology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2017).

An edited book

A. Sadeghian, J. M. Mendel, and H. Tahayori, Eds., Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems: Theory and Applications, Springer, New York, NY (2013).

A chapter in an edited book

R. Amesbury, “The virtues of belief: toward a non-evidentialist ethics of belief-formation,” in Ethics of Belief: Essays in Tribute to D.Z. Phillips, E. T. Long and P. Horn, Eds., pp. 25–37, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2008).

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 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems.

Blog post

J. O`Callaghan, “NASA Is Looking For Your Ideas To Live Off The Land On Mars,” IFLScience, 14 October 2015 (accessed 30 October 2018).

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, “Use of Department of Education Title III Grant Funds by the International Institute of the Americas of World University,” HRD-84-20, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1984).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

A. N. Pugh, “Adoption is an option: A personal narrative,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach (2010).

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

G. Loomis, “Baroque Opera at the Ambronay Festival,” in New York Times, p. 0 (2012).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
Abbreviation	J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst.
ISSN (print)	2329-4124
ISSN (online)	2329-4221
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Control and Systems Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Astronomy and Astrophysics Instrumentation