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

Singleton, A.B.: Genetics. A unified process for neurological disease. Science. 343, 497–498 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Langley, J.A., Megonigal, J.P.: Ecosystem response to elevated CO(2) levels limited by nitrogen-induced plant species shift. Nature. 466, 96–99 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Ganesh, G., Osu, R., Naito, E.: Feeling the force: returning haptic signals influence effort inference during motor coordination. Sci. Rep. 3, 2648 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bower, A.S., Le Cann, B., Rossby, T., Zenk, W., Gould, J., Speer, K., Richardson, P.L., Prater, M.D., Zhang, H.-M.: Directly measured mid-depth circulation in the northeastern North Atlantic Ocean. Nature. 419, 603–607 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tavakoli, J.M.: Structured Finance and Collateralized Debt Obligations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2008)

An edited book

Buchanan, A., Rotkirch, A. eds: Grandfathers: Global Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Behnke, S., Müller, J., Schreiber, M.: Playing Soccer with RoboSapien. In: Bredenfeld, A., Jacoff, A., Noda, I., and Takahashi, Y. (eds.) RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX. pp. 36–48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

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

Andrew, E.: Coral Reefs’ Physical Conditions Set Biological Rules Of Nature – Until People Show Up, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/coral-reefs-physical-conditions-set-biological-rules-nature-until-people-show/

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: Transportation Issue Area: Active Assignments. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1996)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sharp, K.: The Epistolary Form: A Familiar Fiction, (2016)

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

Hodgman, J.: Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Singleton 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Langley and Megonigal 2010; Singleton 2014).

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

Two authors: (Langley and Megonigal 2010)
Three or more authors: (Bower et al. 2002)

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