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

Wolpert, L., 2000. The well-spring. Nature 405, 887.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goswami, P., Baruah, J., 2014. Quantitative assessment of relative roles of drivers of acute respiratory diseases. Sci. Rep. 4, 6532.

A journal article with 3 authors

Feng, Y., Zhang, S., Huang, X., 2014. A robust TALENs system for highly efficient mammalian genome editing. Sci. Rep. 4, 3632.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lundegaard, L.F., Weck, G., McMahon, M.I., Desgreniers, S., Loubeyre, P., 2006. Observation of an O8 molecular lattice in the epsilon phase of solid oxygen. Nature 443, 201–204.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 2010. A Practical Approach to Hazard Identification for Operations and Maintenance Workers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Spiliopoulos, K., Weichert, D. (Eds.), 2014. Direct Methods for Limit States in Structures and Materials. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Duffau, H., 2006. Lessons from Brain Mapping in Surgery for Low-Grade Gliomas: Study of Cerebral Connectivity and Plasticity, in: Yang, G.-Z., Jiang, T., Shen, D., Gu, L., Yang, J. (Eds.), Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality: Third International Workshop, Shanghai, China, August 17-18, 2006 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25–35.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Ancient Meteorite Sheds Light On The Early Solar System’s Magnetic Field [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-meteorite-sheds-light-early-solar-systems-magnetic-field/ (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, 2004. Low-Income and Minority Serving Institutions: Department of Education Could Improve Its Monitoring and Assistance (No. GAO-04-961). 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

Van Vlack, K.A., 2012. Puaxant tuvip: Powerlands Southern Paiute cultural landscapes and pilgrimage trails (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Dailey, M., 2017. The Arts Fall Preview Is About to Drop. New York Times A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wolpert, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Goswami and Baruah, 2014; Wolpert, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Goswami and Baruah, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Lundegaard et al., 2006)

About the journal

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