How to format your references using the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 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

[1]

Laursen L 2014 A preventable cancer Nature 516 S2-3

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Saks M J and Koehler J J 2005 The coming paradigm shift in forensic identification science Science 309 892–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Brosco V, Ying Z-J and Lorenzana J 2013 Exact exchange-correlation potential of an ionic Hubbard model with a free surface Sci. Rep. 3 2172

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Oppenheimer M, O’Neill B C, Webster M and Agrawala S 2007 Climate change. The limits of consensus Science 317 1505–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Woods L C 2005 Theory of Tokamak Transport (Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Peters J F, Skowron A, Wolski M, Chakraborty M K and Wu W-Z 2009 Transactions on Rough Sets X vol 5656 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cocconcelli M, Zimroz R, Rubini R and Bartelmus W 2012 STFT Based Approach for Ball Bearing Fault Detection in a Varying Speed Motor Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationary Operations: Proceedings of the Second International Conference “Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationnary Operations” CMMNO’2012 ed T Fakhfakh, W Bartelmus, F Chaari, R Zimroz and M Haddar (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 41–50

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 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J 2015 NASA To Invest In Eco-Friendly Commercial Supersonic Jets IFLScience

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1986 Computer Capacity: IRS Must Better Estimate Its Computer Resource Needs (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Johnson J M 2013 Service learning: Providing the building blocks for a socially responsible nursing role Doctoral dissertation (Minneapolis, MN: Capella University)

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

[1]

Kishkovsky S 2007 Iran: Russia Delays Nuclear Plant To 2008 New York Times A6

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	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Abbreviation	J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
ISSN (online)	1475-7516
Scope	Astronomy and Astrophysics