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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Trenberth, K., 2005. Climate. Uncertainty in hurricanes and global warming. Science 308, 1753–1754.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zahn, M., von Storch, H., 2010. Decreased frequency of North Atlantic polar lows associated with future climate warming. Nature 467, 309–312.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gros, J., Serralbo, O., Marcelle, C., 2009. WNT11 acts as a directional cue to organize the elongation of early muscle fibres. Nature 457, 589–593.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sankaran, V.G., Menne, T.F., Xu, J., Akie, T.E., Lettre, G., Van Handel, B., Mikkola, H.K.A., Hirschhorn, J.N., Cantor, A.B., Orkin, S.H., 2008. Human fetal hemoglobin expression is regulated by the developmental stage-specific repressor BCL11A. Science 322, 1839–1842.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alladin, A., 2015. Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Stock, C., Ellaway, A. (Eds.), 2013. Neighbourhood Structure and Health Promotion. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Chou, C.-P., 2013. The Greatest Event in Life, A Farce in One Act, in: Chou, Chih-P’ing (Ed.), English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society (Volume 1), China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–39.

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

Davis, J., 2016. Bornean Orangutans Now Considered Critically Endangered [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bornean-orangutans-now-considered-critically-endangered/ (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, 1999. Amendment No. 1--Documentation Requirements When Assessing Control Risk at Maximum for Controls Significantly Dependent Upon Computerized Information Systems (Superseded by GAO-03-673G) A-GAGAS-1, May 1999 (No. A-GAGAS-1). 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

McDuffie, C.A., 2017. Melodies of intervention: Music therapy for transitional-age youth: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Dinardo, K., 2016. An Orangutan Expert Advises Visiting Now. New York Times TR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trenberth, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Trenberth, 2005; Zahn and von Storch, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zahn and von Storch, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sankaran et al., 2008)

About the journal

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