How to format your references using the Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. 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

Brody, H.: Gold. Nature. 495, S1 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson, M.I., Wilson, R.J.: A topographically forced asymmetry in the martian circulation and climate. Nature. 416, 298–301 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Alley, R.B., Fahnestock, M., Joughin, I.: Climate change. Understanding glacier flow in changing times. Science. 322, 1061–1062 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Campbell, P.J., Yachida, S., Mudie, L.J., Stephens, P.J., Pleasance, E.D., Stebbings, L.A., Morsberger, L.A., Latimer, C., McLaren, S., Lin, M.-L., McBride, D.J., Varela, I., Nik-Zainal, S.A., Leroy, C., Jia, M., Menzies, A., Butler, A.P., Teague, J.W., Griffin, C.A., Burton, J., Swerdlow, H., Quail, M.A., Stratton, M.R., Iacobuzio-Donahue, C., Futreal, P.A.: The patterns and dynamics of genomic instability in metastatic pancreatic cancer. Nature. 467, 1109–1113 (2010)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Bodic, G.: Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2005)

An edited book

Spreemann, D.: Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvesting Devices: Architectures, Design, Modeling and Optimization. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Grob, A., Colleran, C., McStay, B.: UBF an Essential Player in Maintenance of Active NORs and Nucleolar Formation. In: Olson, M.O.J. (ed.) The Nucleolus. pp. 83–103. Springer, New York, NY (2011)

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 Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Scientists Find Vessels That Connect Immune System And Brain, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/vessels-found-connect-immune-system-and-brain/

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: Telecommunications: GSA’s Estimates of FTS2001 Revenues Are Reasonable. 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

Leak, S.C.: Building community capacity to meet the needs of our aging society: Interdisciplinary competency development for professionals, (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

Corkery, M., Walsh, M.W.: Island Trips for Treasury, (2015)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Brody 2013; Richardson and Wilson 2002).

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

Two authors: (Richardson and Wilson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Campbell et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
Abbreviation	Celest. Mech. Dyn. Astron.
ISSN (print)	0923-2958
ISSN (online)	1572-9478
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics