How to format your references using the Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions. 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

Ambros, V.: Development. Dicing up RNAs, Science, 293, 811–813, 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johansson, M. E. V. and Hansson, G. C.: Microbiology. Keeping bacteria at a distance, Science, 334, 182–183, 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, E. D., Guyer, M. S., and National Human Genome Research Institute: Charting a course for genomic medicine from base pairs to bedside, Nature, 470, 204–213, 2011.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Sait, S. M., Liu, W. C., Thompson, D. J., Godfray, H. C., and Begon, M.: Invasion sequence affects predator-prey dynamics in a multi-species interaction, Nature, 405, 448–450, 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGuiggan, P.: GPRS in Practice, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

Vaudenay, S. (Ed.): Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2006: 24th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 28 - June 1, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIV, 622 p pp., 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Hippe, A., Homey, B., and Mueller-Homey, A.: Chemokines, in: Angiogenesis Inhibition, edited by: Liersch, R., Berdel, W. E., and Kessler, T., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 35–50, 2010.

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 Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions.

Blog post

Wedding Bells Or Single Again: Psychology Predicts Where Your Relationship Is Headed: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/wedding-bells-or-single-again-psychology-predicts-where-your-relationship-headed/, 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: Airport Improvement Program: Analysis of Discretionary Spending for Fiscal Years 1996-98, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sheldon, A.: The impact of power restoration and narcissism on aggression, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Billard, M.: When Artist Becomes Muse, New York Times, 17th June, E5, 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ambros, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Ambros, 2001; Johansson and Hansson, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Johansson and Hansson, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Sait et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions
ISSN (print)	1810-6528
ISSN (online)	1810-6536
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