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

Cann, R.L.: Genetics. Y weigh in again on modern humans. Science. 341, 465–467 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, E.J., Goldstein, D.: Medicine. Do defaults save lives? Science. 302, 1338–1339 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Adams, E.J., Chien, Y.-H., Garcia, K.C.: Structure of a gammadelta T cell receptor in complex with the nonclassical MHC T22. Science. 308, 227–231 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Agogué, H., Brink, M., Dinasquet, J., Herndl, G.J.: Major gradients in putatively nitrifying and non-nitrifying Archaea in the deep North Atlantic. Nature. 456, 788–791 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cruz, M.G., Peters, G.W., Shevchenko, P.V.: Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2015)

An edited book

Motreanu, D.: Topological and Variational Methods with Applications to Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems. Springer, New York, NY (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Dabelea, D.: Maternal-Fetal Contributors to the Insulin Resistance Syndrome in Youth. In: Zeitler, P.S. and Nadeau, K.J. (eds.) Insulin Resistance: Childhood Precursors and Adult Disease. pp. 65–80. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ (2009)

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

Evans, K.: Current Impact Of Climate Change On Threatened Species Hugely Underestimated, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/current-impact-of-climate-change-on-threatened-species-hugely-underestimated/

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: Social Security Administration: Fugitive Felon Program Could Benefit from Better Use of Technology. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2002)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bracht, K.D.: Causes of nonattendance and its effect on student achievement at the high school level, (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

Grynbaum, M.M., Steel, E.: After Ailes’s Departure, a Stony Silence at Fox, (2016)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cann 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Cann 2013; Johnson and Goldstein 2003).

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

Two authors: (Johnson and Goldstein 2003)
Three or more authors: (Agogué et al. 2008)

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