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]

S. Goodman, University challenge Paris, Nature 422 (2003) 644–645.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Phadnis, H.A. Orr, A single gene causes both male sterility and segregation distortion in Drosophila hybrids, Science 323 (2009) 376–379.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Z. Wang, A. Pakoulev, D.D. Dlott, Watching vibrational energy transfer in liquids with atomic spatial resolution, Science 296 (2002) 2201–2203.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.T. Whittington, O. Vugrek, K.J. Wei, N.G. Hasenbein, K. Sugimoto, M.C. Rashbrooke, G.O. Wasteneys, MOR1 is essential for organizing cortical microtubules in plants, Nature 411 (2001) 610–613.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Nova, Soil Mechanics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Shmaliy, ed., Continuous-Time Systems, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Mazza, I. Gat-Viks, H. Farhan, R. Sharan, A Minimum-Labeling Approach for Reconstructing Protein Networks across Multiple Conditions, in: A. Darling, J. Stoye (Eds.), Algorithms in Bioinformatics: 13th International Workshop, WABI 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 2-4, 2013. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 33–44.

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]

E. Andrew, One Ton Guinea Pig Cousin Used Gnashers Like Tusks, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/one-ton-guinea-pig-cousin-used-gnashers-tusks/ (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, Mass Transit: Review of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District’s Airport Extension Finance Plan, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N. Seip, A one day training on the human papillomavirus for foster youth receiving independent living services: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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. Barron, A Neighborhood Wants Its Historic District Expanded, New York Times (2017) A17.

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