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

Tanabe, K.: Paleontology. The feeding habits of ammonites. Science. 331, 37–38 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Wagner, E.F., Petruzzelli, M.: Cancer metabolism: A waste of insulin interference. Nature. 521, 430–431 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmittner, A., Yoshimori, M., Weaver, A.J.: Instability of glacial climate in a model of the ocean- atmosphere-cryosphere system. Science. 295, 1489–1493 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mucida, D., Park, Y., Kim, G., Turovskaya, O., Scott, I., Kronenberg, M., Cheroutre, H.: Reciprocal TH17 and regulatory T cell differentiation mediated by retinoic acid. Science. 317, 256–260 (2007)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chernick, M.R.: The Essentials of Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinicians. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Pequegnat, W., Bell, C.C. eds: Family and HIV/AIDS: Cultural and Contextual Issues in Prevention and Treatment. Springer, New York, NY (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Thomsen, H.S.: Management of Acute Adverse Reactions to Contrast Media. In: Thomsen, H.S. (ed.) Contrast Media: Safety Issues and ESUR Guidelines. pp. 19–25. 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 Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Vaccine Provides Broad Protection Against The Flu In Mice, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vaccine-provides-broad-protection-against-flue-mice/

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: Prisoners Receiving Social Security and Other Federal Retirement, Disability, and Education Benefits. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1982)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dawood, A.A.: Relationship between mental health and treatment seeking in an urban Muslim community, (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

Sisario, B., Alter, A., Chan, S.: Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize, Redefining the Boundaries of Literature, (2016)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tanabe 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Tanabe 2011; Wagner and Petruzzelli 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wagner and Petruzzelli 2015)
Three or more authors: (Mucida et al. 2007)

About the journal

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