How to format your references using the Icarus citation style

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

Wible, B., 2012. Rio+20. Science for sustainable development. Science 336, 1396.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ohta, A., Sitkovsky, M., 2001. Role of G-protein-coupled adenosine receptors in downregulation of inflammation and protection from tissue damage. Nature 414, 916–920.

A journal article with 3 authors

Canfield, D.E., Glazer, A.N., Falkowski, P.G., 2010. The evolution and future of Earth’s nitrogen cycle. Science 330, 192–196.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rupert, P.B., Massey, A.P., Sigurdsson, S.T., Ferré-D’Amaré, A.R., 2002. Transition state stabilization by a catalytic RNA. Science 298, 1421–1424.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robertson, B., Vignaux, G.A., Berger, C.E.H., 2016. Interpreting Evidence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Maheshwari, D.K. (Ed.), 2014. Bacterial Diversity in Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Development and Biodiversity. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sonnemann, T.F., Malatesta, E.H., Hofman, C.L., 2016. Applying UAS Photogrammetry to Analyze Spatial Patterns of Indigenous Settlement Sites in the Northern Dominican Republic, in: Forte, M., Campana, S. (Eds.), Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology: Archaeology in the Age of Sensing, Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 71–87.

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 Icarus.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. 1.7-Million-Year-Old Human Cancer Is The Oldest Ever Found [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/17millionyearold-human-cancer-is-the-oldest-ever-found/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1991. Perkins Student Loans: Options That Could Make the Program More Financially Independent (No. HRD-92-6). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moose, A.M., 2013. The Relationship of Distributed Expertise and Shared Leadership in New Product Development Teams: A Comparative Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kelly, K., 2017. James Staley’s Series of Unfortunate Events. New York Times BU1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wible, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Ohta and Sitkovsky, 2001; Wible, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Ohta and Sitkovsky, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Rupert et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Icarus
Abbreviation	Icarus
ISSN (print)	0019-1035
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics