How to format your references using the Advances in Space Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Space Research. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Torquato, S., 2000. Glass transition. Hard knock for thermodynamics. Nature 405, 521, 523.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, J., Cheng, J.-X., 2014. Direct visualization of de novo lipogenesis in single living cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 6807.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bates, M.E., Simmons, J.A., Zorikov, T.V., 2011. Bats use echo harmonic structure to distinguish their targets from background clutter. Science 333, 627–630.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Obraztsov, P.A., Kaplas, T., Garnov, S.V., Kuwata-Gonokami, M., Obraztsov, A.N., Svirko, Y.P., 2014. All-optical control of ultrafast photocurrents in unbiased graphene. Sci. Rep. 4, 4007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodgers, N., 2000. Learning to Reason. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bai, H., 2011. Distributed Multiple Description Coding: Principles, Algorithms and Systems. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Tiliouine, H., 2014. Gender Dimensions of Quality of Life in Algeria, in: Eckermann, E. (Ed.), Gender, Lifespan and Quality of Life: An International Perspective, Social Indicators Research Series. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 63–82.

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 Advances in Space Research.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. Can Ayahuasca, The ‘Sacred Plant’ Of The Amazon, Help Addiction And Depression? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-ayahuasca-the-sacred-plant-of-the-amazon-help-addiction-and-depression/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1987. Motor Vehicle Safety: A Review of the NTSB Report on Rear Seat Lap Belt Effectiveness (No. RCED-88-13). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Paoletti, M.S., 2010. Experimental characterization of turbulent superfluid helium (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Montague, J., 2016. One History, Two Clubs, Split by War. New York Times SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Torquato, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Li and Cheng, 2014; Torquato, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Li and Cheng, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Obraztsov et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Space Research
Abbreviation	Adv. Space Res.
ISSN (print)	0273-1177
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Aerospace Engineering