How to format your references using the CEAS Space Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for CEAS Space Journal. 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

Sloboda, J.: Q&A: Melodic psychologist. Interview by Jascha Hoffman. Nature. 506, 433 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewis, S.L., Maslin, M.A.: Defining the anthropocene. Nature. 519, 171–180 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuang, S.-T., Kuo, Y.-H., Su, M.-J.: Antifibrotic effects of KS370G, a caffeamide derivative, in renal ischemia-reperfusion injured mice and renal tubular epithelial cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 5814 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tsatourian, V., Sergeyev, S.V., Mou, C., Rozhin, A., Mikhailov, V., Rabin, B., Westbrook, P.S., Turitsyn, S.K.: Polarisation dynamics of vector soliton molecules in mode locked fibre laser. Sci. Rep. 3, 3154 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Todeschini, R., Baccini, A.: Handbook of Bibliometric Indicators. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2016)

An edited book

Sánchez-Alonso, S., Athanasiadis, I.N. eds: Metadata and Semantic Research: 4th International Conference, MTSR 2010, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 20-22, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Arnoldner, C., Lin, V.Y.W., Chen, J.M.: Round Window Exposure. In: Lin, V.Y.W. and Chen, J.M. (eds.) Manual of Otologic Surgery. pp. 27–30. Springer, Vienna (2015)

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 CEAS Space Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Scientists Investigate How Dino-Sores Healed

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: Information Technology: Federal Agencies Need to Address Aging Legacy Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2016)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ploehs, J.R.: The literacy benefits of middle school tutors who tutor emergent readers, (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

Schwartz, J., Blinder, A.: Houston Faces Urgent Task: Moving Mountains of Storm Debris, (2017)

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	CEAS Space Journal
Abbreviation	CEAS Space J.
ISSN (print)	1868-2502
ISSN (online)	1868-2510
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Aerospace Engineering