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

Mervis, J. Behind the Numbers. Salaries Pump up Biomedical Inflation. Science 2015, 349, 225.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bucknall, D.G.; Anderson, H.L. Chemistry. Polymers Get Organized. Science 2003, 302, 1904–1905.

A journal article with 3 authors

Duivenvoorden, J.F.; Svenning, J.C.; Wright, S.J. Ecology. Beta Diversity in Tropical Forests. Science 2002, 295, 636–637.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tzedakis, P.C.; Lawson, I.T.; Frogley, M.R.; Hewitt, G.M.; Preece, R.C. Buffered Tree Population Changes in a Quaternary Refugium: Evolutionary Implications. Science 2002, 297, 2044–2047.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, L.S.; Simões, R.; Gervásio, H. Design of Steel Structures; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH: D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2014; ISBN 9783433604229.

An edited book

Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems; Ultes, S., Nothdurft, F., Heinroth, T., Minker, W., Eds.; 2nd ed. 2016.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; ISBN 9783319234519.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, D.; El-Hacha, R. The Use of Appropriate Finite Element Modelling Techniques for the Idealization of a Novel Hybrid Multi-Girder Bridge Deck System. In Developments in International Bridge Engineering: Selected Papers from Istanbul Bridge Conference 2014; Caner, A., Gülkan, P., Mahmoud, K., Eds.; Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 51–64 ISBN 9783319197845.

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

Andrew, E. Gorgeous New Hubble Image Of Cosmic Butterfly Wings Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/gorgeous-new-hubble-image-cosmic-butterfly-wings/ (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 Claims of Civilian Employees Who Were Overpaid per Diem While Attending Training Schools; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1978;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woods, R.A. Missouri Legislator and Administrator Perceptions of Federal Government Involvement in Education. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University: St. Charles, MO, 2017.

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

Saslow, L. Graduation Rates Rise, and Bar Is Raised. New York Times 2008, LI2.

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
Scope