How to format your references using the REACH - Reviews in Human Space Exploration citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for REACH - Reviews in Human Space Exploration. 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]

Stern P. Glia. Glee for glia. Introduction. Science 2010;330:773.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jenet FA, Ransom SM. The geometry of the double-pulsar system J0737-3039 from systematic intensity variations. Nature 2004;428:919–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Eggleton PP, Dearborn DSP, Lattanzio JC. Deep mixing of 3He: reconciling Big Bang and stellar nucleosynthesis. Science 2006;314:1580–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Siveter DJ, Sutton MD, Briggs DEG, Siveter DJ. A Silurian sea spider. Nature 2004;431:978–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lahdenmäki T, Leach M. Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Tan Y, Shi Y, Ji Z, editors. Advances in Swarm Intelligence: Third International Conference, ICSI 2012, Shenzhen, China, June 17-20, 2012 Proceedings, Part I. vol. 7331. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Privat M, Warner R. Creating a Data Model. In: Warner R, editor. Pro Core Data for iOS: Data Access and Persistence Engine for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011, p. 111–32.

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 REACH - Reviews in Human Space Exploration.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. McDonald’s Is Facing Increasing Pressure To Stop Using Meat And Milk From Animals Treated With Antibiotics. IFLScience 2016.

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. Protest Against Rejection of Bid. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Escamilla D. How performance following the implementation of a new structure affects employee engagement. 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

[1]

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2016:MM20.

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	REACH - Reviews in Human Space Exploration
ISSN (print)	2352-3093
Scope	Aerospace Engineering Medicine (miscellaneous) Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiation Human Factors and Ergonomics