How to format your references using the TsAGI Science Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for TsAGI Science Journal (TSAGI). 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

Novick, R. P., Medicine. Combating Impervious Bugs, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 319, no. 5865, pp. 910–11, February 15, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thodey, K. and Smolke, C. D., Cell Biology. Bringing It Together with RNA, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 333, no. 6041, pp. 412–13, July 22, 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, J., Balabin, I. A. and Beratan, D. N., The Nature of Aqueous Tunneling Pathways between Electron-Transfer Proteins, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 310, no. 5752, pp. 1311–13, November 25, 2005.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chin, J. W., Cropp, T. A., Anderson, J. C., Mukherji, M., Zhang, Z. and Schultz, P. G., An Expanded Eukaryotic Genetic Code, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 301, no. 5635, pp. 964–67, August 15, 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam, M. R. and Speight, J. G., Peak Energy: Myth or Reality?, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

Lübberstedt, T. and Varshney, R. K. Eds., Diagnostics in Plant Breeding, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, XV, 521 p. 76 illus., 32 illus. in color, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Moreira, A. M., Hentz, C., Déharbe, D., Matos, E. C. B. de, Neto, J. B. S. and Medeiros, V. de, Verifying Code Generation Tools for the B-Method Using Tests: A Case Study, in Tests and Proofs: 9th International Conference, TAP 2015, Held as Part of STAF 2015, L’Aquila, Italy, July 22-24, 2015. Proceedings, J. C. Blanchette and N. Kosmatov, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 76–91, 2015.

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 TsAGI Science Journal.

Blog post

Andrews, R., AI Repeatedly Beats Colonel In Aerial Combat Simulations, IFLScience, June 28, 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

Government Accountability Office, National Security: Papers Prepared for GAO Conference on Worldwide Threats, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-92-104S, Apr. 16, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clark, M., How Charter School Teachers Act on Perceived Autonomy: A Qualitative Study of Curricular Decisions, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2011.

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

Billard, M., Sunsets and Pink Dolphins Along the Amazon, New York Times, April 13, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Novick, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Novick, 2008; Thodey et al., 2011).

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

Two authors: (Thodey et al., 2011)
Three or more authors: (Chin et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	TsAGI Science Journal
ISSN (print)	1948-2590
ISSN (online)	1948-2604
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