How to format your references using the The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences. 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

Mysak, L.A.: Oceanography. Patterns of Arctic circulation. Science. 293, 1269–1270 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickens, M., Kwak, J.E.: Molecular biology. A tail tale for U. Science. 319, 1344–1345 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Bintanja, R., van de Wal, R.S.W., Oerlemans, J.: Modelled atmospheric temperatures and global sea levels over the past million years. Nature. 437, 125–128 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lange, A., Giller, K., Hornig, S., Martin-Eauclaire, M.-F., Pongs, O., Becker, S., Baldus, M.: Toxin-induced conformational changes in a potassium channel revealed by solid-state NMR. Nature. 440, 959–962 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goering, H., Roos, H.-G., Tobiska, L.: Die Finite-Elemente-Methode für Anfänger. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2010)

An edited book

Sartor, G., Palmirani, M., Francesconi, E., Biasiotti, M.A. eds: Legislative XML for the Semantic Web: Principles, Models, Standards for Document Management. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Gozdawa-Gołębiowski, R.: Basic Dichotomies in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: A Case of Formulaic Language. In: Gabryś-Barker, D., Piechurska-Kuciel, E., and Zybert, J. (eds.) Investigations in Teaching and Learning Languages: Studies in Honour of Hanna Komorowska. pp. 35–50. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg (2013)

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 the Astronautical Sciences.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Bedbug Trap On The Way, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bedbug-trap-way/

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: Public Transportation: New Starts Program Is in a Period of Transition. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2006)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Austin, J.H.: Performing the past: Two pageant traditions in Nauvoo, Illinois, (2015)

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

Kelly, K.: At Goldman, Dim Results For Trading In Early 2017, (2017)

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 the Astronautical Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Astronaut. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0021-9142
ISSN (online)	2195-0571
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Aerospace Engineering