How to format your references using the Constellations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Constellations. 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	Download the output style file
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

Gorvel, Jean-Pierre. “Microbiology. Bacterial Bushwacking through a Microtubule Jungle.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314, no. 5801 (November 10, 2006): 931–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Catalan, Gustau, and James F. Scott. “Magnetoelectrics: Is CdCr2S4 a Multiferroic Relaxor?” Nature 448, no. 7156 (August 23, 2007): E4-5; discussion E5-6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jones, Daniel L., Robert C. Brewster, and Rob Phillips. “Promoter Architecture Dictates Cell-to-Cell Variability in Gene Expression.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 346, no. 6216 (December 19, 2014): 1533–36.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lee, Ann-Hwee, Erez F. Scapa, David E. Cohen, and Laurie H. Glimcher. “Regulation of Hepatic Lipogenesis by the Transcription Factor XBP1.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, no. 5882 (June 13, 2008): 1492–96.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yanni, Souzan B. Translational ADMET for Drug Therapy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

Marinai, Simone, and Hiromichi Fujisawa, eds. Machine Learning in Document Analysis and Recognition. Vol. 90. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Bavry, Anthony A., and Dharam J. Kumbhani. “Peripheral Interventions.” In Indications and Techniques of Percutaneous Procedures: Coronary, Peripheral, and Structural Heart Disease, edited by Dharam J. Kumbhani, 29–60. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd., 2012.

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 Constellations.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. “Fossils Reveal How Fish Made Transition from Water to Land.” IFLScience. IFLScience, January 15, 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fossils-reveal-how-fish-made-transition-water-land/.

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. “Geostationary Weather Satellites: Progress Made, but Weaknesses in Scheduling, Contingency Planning, and Communicating with Users Need to Be Addressed.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September 9, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wicks, Corky Fitzgerald. “The Self-Concept of Students in Remediation in a Rural Community College in Mississippi.” Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2017.

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

Hanc, John. “Ideas and Goals, Yes. Walls, No.” New York Times, March 15, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Constellations
Abbreviation	Constellations
ISSN (online)	1467-8675
Scope	General Psychology General Social Sciences