How to format your references using the Planetary and Space Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Planetary and Space Science. 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

Weidemüller, M., 2013. Quantum physics: spooky action gets collective. Nature 498, 438–439.

A journal article with 2 authors

Greenleaf, W.J., Block, S.M., 2006. Single-molecule, motion-based DNA sequencing using RNA polymerase. Science 313, 801.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller, P.M., Gavrilets, S., Rice, W.R., 2006. Sexual conflict via maternal-effect genes in ZW species. Science 312, 73.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brunthaler, A., Reid, M.J., Falcke, H., Greenhill, L.J., Henkel, C., 2005. The geometric distance and proper motion of the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). Science 307, 1440–1443.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weller, R.B., Hunter, H.J.A., Mann, M.W., 2014. Clinical Dermatology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kitagawa, H., Ishikawa, Y., Li, Q., Watanabe, C. (Eds.), 2010. Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 15th International Conference, DASFAA 2010, Tsukuba, Japan, April 1-4, 2010, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sriprang, R., Murooka, Y., 2007. Accumulation and Detoxification of Metals by Plants and Microbes, in: Singh, S.N., Tripathi, R.D. (Eds.), Environmental Bioremediation Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 77–100.

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 Planetary and Space Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. New Sauropod Species Discovered in Tanzania [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1979. Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Progress in Providing Special Education Services to Indian Children (No. CED-79-121). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

He, W., 2017. A Comprehensive Analysis of Fracture Initiation and Propagation in Sandstones based on Micro-Level Observation and Digital Imaging Correlation (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Clarke, J., 2017. The Ashes That Got Away. New York Times SP8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weidemüller, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Greenleaf and Block, 2006; Weidemüller, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Greenleaf and Block, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Brunthaler et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Planetary and Space Science
Abbreviation	Planet. Space Sci.
ISSN (print)	0032-0633
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics