How to format your references using the Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology. 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

van Ommen, T.: Palaeoclimate: Northern push for the bipolar see-saw. Nature. 520, 630–631 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Patzelt, F., Pawelzik, K.: An inherent instability of efficient markets. Sci. Rep. 3, 2784 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Nielsen, S.B., Stephenson, R., Thomsen, E.: Dynamics of Mid-Palaeocene North Atlantic rifting linked with European intra-plate deformations. Nature. 450, 1071–1074 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mol, C.D., Izumi, T., Mitra, S., Tainer, J.A.: DNA-bound structures and mutants reveal abasic DNA binding by APE1 and DNA repair coordination [corrected]. Nature. 403, 451–456 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

AIChE technical manual: Dow’s Chemical Exposure Index Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (1998)

An edited book

Hartel, R.W.: Sai cosa mangi?: La scienza del cibo. Springer, Milano (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Bowyer, G.: Foot and Ankle. In: Bowyer, G. and Cole, A. (eds.) Selected References in Trauma and Orthopaedics. pp. 115–140. Springer, London (2014)

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 Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Bees Give Up On Sunflowers That Don’t Face East, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bees-give-up-on-sunflowers-that-dont-face-east/

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: Review of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Procurements of Automatic Data Processing Equipment. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1980)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

DeSpain, L.: The relationship between police supervisor training and job satisfaction levels as reported by patrol officers, (2008)

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

Crow, K.: Is Tabby Looking a Bit Flabby? A Possible Solution, (2002)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van Ommen 2015).
This sentence cites two references (van Ommen 2015; Patzelt and Pawelzik 2013).

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

Two authors: (Patzelt and Pawelzik 2013)
Three or more authors: (Mol et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology
Abbreviation	Comput. Astrophys. Cosmol.
ISSN (online)	2197-7909
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