How to format your references using the Space Weather citation style

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

Deweerdt, S. (2014). Comparative biology: Naked ambition. Nature, 509(7502), S60-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Broccoli, A. J., & Klein, S. A. (2010). Comment on “Observational and model evidence for positive low-level cloud feedback.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5989), 277; author reply 277.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parsons, T., Ji, C., & Kirby, E. (2008). Stress changes from the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and increased hazard in the Sichuan basin. Nature, 454(7203), 509–510.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Glotch, T. D., Lucey, P. G., Bandfield, J. L., Greenhagen, B. T., Thomas, I. R., Elphic, R. C., et al. (2010). Highly silicic compositions on the Moon. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5998), 1510–1513.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, M., & Cutler, T. J. (2012). Haematology Nursing. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Shafferman, A., Ordentlich, A., & Velan, B. (Eds.). (2010). The Challenge of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms: Mechanisms of Virulence and Novel Medical Countermeasures. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Mähne, T., & Vachoux, A. (2007). ModelLib: A Web-Based Platform for Collecting Behavioural Models and Supporting the Design of AMS Systems. In S. A. Huss (Ed.), Advances in Design and Specification Languages for Embedded Systems: Selected Contributions from FDL’06 (pp. 69–88). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Space Weather.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, August 6). Ancient Long-Necked Marine Reptile Discovered in Alaska. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-long-necked-marine-reptile-discovered-alaska/

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. (1981). Review of Department of Education FY 1980 Interagency Fund Transfer Agreements (No. AFMD-82-19). 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

Conway, A. H. (2014). Signs and symptoms of moral injury in female vietnam veterans: A qualitative examination of the nvvrs (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Vecsey, G. (2013, March 24). In Snowstorm, U.S. Finds Remedy For a Cold Spell. New York Times, p. SP9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Deweerdt, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Broccoli & Klein, 2010; Deweerdt, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Broccoli & Klein, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Glotch et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Space Weather
Abbreviation	Space Weather
ISSN (print)	1539-4956
ISSN (online)	1542-7390
Scope	Atmospheric Science