How to format your references using the Aerospace Science and Technology citation style

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

[1]

J.P. Severinghaus, Atmospheric science. Monsoons and meltdowns, Science 326 (2009) 240–241.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Cui, C.M. Lieber, Functional nanoscale electronic devices assembled using silicon nanowire building blocks, Science 291 (2001) 851–853.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. McKinnon, E. Nol, C. Juillet, Arctic-nesting birds find physiological relief in the face of trophic constraints, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1816.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.M. Mills, C. Ridame, M. Davey, J. La Roche, R.J. Geider, Iron and phosphorus co-limit nitrogen fixation in the eastern tropical North Atlantic, Nature 429 (2004) 292–294.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Sabol, Case Studies in Mechanical Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

L. Davi, Building Secure Defenses Against Code-Reuse Attacks, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Zielinski, R. Laur, Stopping Criteria for Differential Evolution in Constrained Single-Objective Optimization, in: U.K. Chakraborty (Ed.), Advances in Differential Evolution, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 111–138.

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 Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Saber-Toothed Cat Bone Turned Into A Tool 300,000 Years Ago By Our Ancestors, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/our-ancestors-turned-saber-toothed-cat-bone-tool/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2005 Expenditure Plan, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Churney, Drawing and multimodality communication training as an effective treatment option for individuals with nonfluent aphasia, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

J. Koblin, S. Maheshwari, Eyes Drift. Marketers Stick to TV, New York Times (2017) B1.

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 Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Aerosp. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1270-9638
Scope	Aerospace Engineering