How to format your references using the Galaxies citation style

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

Wilczek, F. In Search of Symmetry Lost. Nature 2005, 433, 239–247.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brinker, C.J.; Clem, P.G. Materials Science. Quartz on Silicon. Science 2013, 340, 818–819.

A journal article with 3 authors

Agathon, A.; Thisse, C.; Thisse, B. The Molecular Nature of the Zebrafish Tail Organizer. Nature 2003, 424, 448–452.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rauch, H.; Lemmel, H.; Baron, M.; Loidl, R. Measurement of a Confinement Induced Neutron Phase. Nature 2002, 417, 630–632.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaufman, J.J.; Woodhead, R. Stimulating Innovation in Products and Services; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2006; ISBN 9780471773665.

An edited book

Advances in Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing: Methods and Applications; Tavares, J.M.R.S., Jorge, R.M.N., Eds.; Computational Methods in Applied Sciences; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2009; Vol. 13; ISBN 9781402090851.

A chapter in an edited book

Hannay, L.M.; Earl, L. Transformational Cultural Norms Supportive of Knowledge-Management. In Reframing Transformational Leadership: New School Culture and Effectiveness; Saleh, I.M., Khine, M.S., Eds.; SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2014; pp. 55–80 ISBN 9789462096387.

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 Galaxies.

Blog post

Andrew, D. Five Things Nurses Are Really Good At – And Sometimes Better Than Doctors Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/five-things-nurses-are-really-good-at-and-sometimes-better-than-doctors/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Propriety of Payment of Transportation and Travel Expenses; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1973;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bade, L.L. Extending the Benefits of Alcohol and Drug Treatment: An Exploration of Volunteer Utilization and Delivery of Recovery Services. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA, 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

Baker, L. Bridge Plan Rattles Seattle Enclave. New York Times 2006, 1111.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Galaxies
Abbreviation	Galaxies
ISSN (online)	2075-4434
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