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 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

Ravallion, M. Income Inequality in the Developing World. Science 2014, 344, 851–855.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lorenz, M.C.; Fink, G.R. The Glyoxylate Cycle Is Required for Fungal Virulence. Nature 2001, 412, 83–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sullivan, M.B.; Waterbury, J.B.; Chisholm, S.W. Cyanophages Infecting the Oceanic Cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Nature 2003, 424, 1047–1051.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hillaire-Marcel, C.; de Vernal, A.; Bilodeau, G.; Weaver, A.J. Absence of Deep-Water Formation in the Labrador Sea during the Last Interglacial Period. Nature 2001, 410, 1073–1077.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety Guidelines for Technical Planning for On-Site Emergencies; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 1995; ISBN 9780470938034.

An edited book

Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar; Benedetto, A., Pajewski, L., Eds.; Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319048123.

A chapter in an edited book

Warth, R.J.; Millett, P.J. Rotator Cuff Disorders. In Physical Examination of the Shoulder: An Evidence-Based Approach; Millett, P.J., Ed.; Springer: New York, NY, 2015; pp. 77–108 ISBN 9781493925926.

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, D. Sad But Adorable Animal Facts That Will Ruin Your Day Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sad-cute-animal-facts/ (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 Aviation Safety: FAA Has Taken Steps to Determine That It Has Made Correct Medical Certification Decisions; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2008;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

James, T.C. African American Students in a California Community College: Perceptions of Cultural Congruity and Academic Self-Concept within a Black Culture Center. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA, 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

Alexander, K. A Squeeze Box Philharmonic. New York Times 2003, 227.

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