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

Turchin, P., 2008. Arise “cliodynamics.” Nature 454, 34–35.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baron, C.L., Malhotra, V., 2002. Role of diacylglycerol in PKD recruitment to the TGN and protein transport to the plasma membrane. Science 295, 325–328.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matzke, M., Matzke, A.J., Kooter, J.M., 2001. RNA: guiding gene silencing. Science 293, 1080–1083.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Potok, R.M., Rau, I.G., Shtrikman, H., Oreg, Y., Goldhaber-Gordon, D., 2007. Observation of the two-channel Kondo effect. Nature 446, 167–171.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bradley, R.L., Jr., 2011. Edison to Enron. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kennelly, S.J. (Ed.), 2007. By-catch Reduction in the World’s Fisheries, Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Ghosh, S., Elenius, D., Li, W., Lincoln, P., Shankar, N., Steiner, W., 2016. ARSENAL: Automatic Requirements Specification Extraction from Natural Language, in: Rayadurgam, S., Tkachuk, O. (Eds.), NASA Formal Methods: 8th International Symposium, NFM 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 7-9, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–46.

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

Luntz, S., 2016. Huge New Study Reveals The Impact Of Spanking On Children [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/spanking-leads-angrier-and-more-defiant-children/ (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, 1997. Aviation Safety: FAA Has Begun Efforts to Make Data More Publicly Available (No. RCED-97-137). 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

Tickner, A., 2009. Production and consumption at the hillfort site of Mont Dardon, France: An archeobotanical analysis (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Tabarrok, A., Rajagopalan, S., 2015. Private Cities, Open to All. New York Times A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Turchin, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Baron and Malhotra, 2002; Turchin, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Baron and Malhotra, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Potok et al., 2007)

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