How to format your references using the ASTRA Proceedings citation style

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

Brenner, S.: History of science. The revolution in the life sciences, Science, 338, 1427–1428, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rilling, J. K. and Young, L. J.: The biology of mammalian parenting and its effect on offspring social development, Science, 345, 771–776, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lia, G., Michel, B., and Allemand, J.-F.: Polymerase exchange during Okazaki fragment synthesis observed in living cells, Science, 335, 328–331, 2012.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Chacron, M. J., Doiron, B., Maler, L., Longtin, A., and Bastian, J.: Non-classical receptive field mediates switch in a sensory neuron’s frequency tuning, Nature, 423, 77–81, 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rushton, A.: VHDL for Logic Synthesis, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

van den Hoven, J., Doorn, N., Swierstra, T., Koops, B.-J., and Romijn, H. (Eds.): Responsible Innovation 1: Innovative Solutions for Global Issues, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XXIII, 392 p. 26 illus pp., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Mallikarjuna, K., Sushma, N. J., and Deva Prasad Raju, B.: Novel, Fast, Bio-Derivatized Sonochemical Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles by Using Piper betle Leaf Broth as a Reducing and Capping Agent, in: Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Dec 8-10, 2011, Guwahati, India, edited by: Giri, P. K., Goswami, D. K., and Perumal, A., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 41–49, 2013.

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 ASTRA Proceedings.

Blog post

Psychopaths’ Brains Respond Abnormally To Punishment: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/psychopaths-brains-respond-abnormally-punishment/, last access: 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: Problems And Progress Of The U.S. Army Materiel Command’s Automated Data Processing Service Center Concept, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Evans, A. M.: Long-Term Sustainability of Surgical Operational Improvements Post Consultancy: A Multiple Case Study Analysis, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 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

Cowley, S. and Corkery, M.: After Scandal, Wells Fargo’s Board Faces a Contentious Re-election Vote, New York Times, 25th April, B1, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Brenner, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brenner, 2012; Rilling and Young, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Rilling and Young, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Chacron et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	ASTRA Proceedings
ISSN (print)	2199-3955
ISSN (online)	2199-3963
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