How to format your references using the Aerospace citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aerospace. 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 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

Szpiro, G. Mathematics: Constructor of a Marvellous Canon. Nature 2014, 514, 566.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wender, P.A.; Miller, B.L. Synthesis at the Molecular Frontier. Nature 2009, 460, 197–201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aldaye, F.A.; Palmer, A.L.; Sleiman, H.F. Assembling Materials with DNA as the Guide. Science 2008, 321, 1795–1799.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Crowther, T.W.; Machmuller, M.B.; Carey, J.C.; Allison, S.D.; Blair, J.M.; Bridgham, S.D.; Burton, A.J.; Dijkstra, F.A.; Elberling, B.; Estiarte, M.; et al. Author Correction: Crowther et al. Reply. Nature 2018, 560, E1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blanchet, G.; Charbit, M. Digital Signal and Image Processing Using MATLAB®; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2015; ISBN 9781119054009.

An edited book

Urologic Robotic Surgery; Stock, J.A., Esposito, M.P., Lanteri, V.J., Albala, D.M., Eds.; Current Clinical Urology; Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2008; ISBN 9781588296153.

A chapter in an edited book

John, A. Dynamic Models of Language Evolution: The Economic Perspective. In The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language; Ginsburgh, V., Weber, S., Eds.; Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2016; pp. 101–120 ISBN 9781349673070.

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 Aerospace.

Blog post

Hale, T. Where Is The Happiest Place In The US? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/where-is-the-happiest-place-in-the-us/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Adolescent Drug Use Prevention: Common Features of Promising Community Programs; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Collins, K. Learning to Live in the Layers: Traveling Soul’s Way through Poetry. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute: Carpinteria, CA, 2014.

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

Dyson, M.E. Athletes Have Always Led the Way. New York Times 2017, SR2.

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	Aerospace
ISSN (online)	2226-4310
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