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

Grayson, M., 2013. Chemistry masterclass. Nature 502, S49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, A., Koehler, A.N., 2015. Drug discovery. Tying up a transcription factor. Science 347, 713–714.

A journal article with 3 authors

Korobova, F., Ramabhadran, V., Higgs, H.N., 2013. An actin-dependent step in mitochondrial fission mediated by the ER-associated formin INF2. Science 339, 464–467.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Arriola, D.J., Carnahan, E.M., Hustad, P.D., Kuhlman, R.L., Wenzel, T.T., 2006. Catalytic production of olefin block copolymers via chain shuttling polymerization. Science 312, 714–719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thiessen, H., 1996. Measuring the Real World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, England.

An edited book

Kudo, G. (Ed.), 2016. Structure and Function of Mountain Ecosystems in Japan: Biodiversity and Vulnerability to Climate Change, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Ecological Research Monographs. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Gay, S.J., 2016. Subtyping Supports Safe Session Substitution, in: Lindley, S., McBride, C., Trinder, P., Sannella, D. (Eds.), A List of Successes That Can Change the World: Essays Dedicated to Philip Wadler on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 95–108.

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. Scientists Reveal Mechanism of Giant Plasma Solar “Rainstorms” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-reveal-mechanism-giant-plasma-solar-rainstorms/ (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. Aviation Security: Improvement still Needed in Federal Aviation Security Efforts (No. GAO-04-592T). 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

Addington, L.M., 2012. Students’ Preferences for Information Sources during the Undergraduate College Search Process: The Influence of Technology (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

Grynbaum, M.M., 2017. MSNBC Surges to an Unfamiliar Spot: No. 1. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Koehler, 2015; Grayson, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Koehler, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Arriola et al., 2006)

About the journal

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