How to format your references using the The Journal of Space Safety Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Space Safety Engineering. 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]

D.W. Oard, Social science. Unlocking the potential of the spoken word, Science 321 (2008) 1787–1788.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Bundock, P. Hooykaas, An Arabidopsis hAT-like transposase is essential for plant development, Nature 436 (2005) 282–284.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Watanabe, J. Farquhar, H. Ohmoto, Anomalous fractionations of sulfur isotopes during thermochemical sulfate reduction, Science 324 (2009) 370–373.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L.-L. Zhang, S. Duan, X.-L. Yang, G. Liang, Y.-H. Huang, X.-Z. Cao, J. Yang, S.-B. Ni, M. Li, Systematic investigation on Cadmium-incorporation in Li₂FeSiO₄/C cathode material for lithium-ion batteries, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5064.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Abu-Jamous, R. Fa, A.K. Nandi, Integrative Cluster Analysis in Bioinformatics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

A. Hajek, C. Lohmeier, C. Pentzold, eds., Memory in a Mediated World: Remembrance and Reconstruction, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Stanta, Tissue Heterogeneity as a Pre-analytical Source of Variability, in: M. Dietel, C. Wittekind, G. Bussolati, M. von Winterfeld (Eds.), Pre-Analytics of Pathological Specimens in Oncology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 35–43.

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 The Journal of Space Safety Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Wild Pigs Forage – And Sleep – Along Magnetic Lines, 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, NASA’s Shuttle Booster Rocket Motor Procurement, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Garcia-Manglano, Working for pay or raising a family? Three papers on women’s work expectations and market outcomes, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2013.

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]

K. Feeney, A Cafe That Caters, New York Times (2009) NJ9.

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	The Journal of Space Safety Engineering
ISSN (print)	2468-8967
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