How to format your references using the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. 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

Forrest, Lucy R. 2013. Structural biology. (Pseudo-)symmetrical transport. Science (New York, N.Y.) 339: 399–401.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu, Lin, and Huanyang Chen. 2014. Logarithm conformal mapping brings the cloaking effect. Scientific reports 4: 6862.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, Ja-Eun, Junjie Chen, and Zhenkun Lou. 2008. DBC1 is a negative regulator of SIRT1. Nature 451: 583–586.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ates, Serkan, Imad Agha, Angelo Gulinatti, Ivan Rech, Antonio Badolato, and Kartik Srinivasan. 2013. Improving the performance of bright quantum dot single photon sources using temporal filtering via amplitude modulation. Scientific reports 3: 1397.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yang, Shiping, Jian-Xin Xu, Xuefang Li, and Dong Shen. 2017. Iterative Learning Control for Multi-agent Systems Coordination. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Premeaux, Emery. 2011. Arduino Projects to Save the World. Edited by Brian Evans. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Stai, Eleni, Vasileios Karyotis, and Symeon Papavassiliou. 2015. On the Impact of Network Evolution on NUM Resource Allocation Problems in Wireless Multihop Networks. In Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks: 14th International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2015, Athens, Greece, June 29 -- July 1, 2015, Proceedings, ed. Symeon Papavassiliou and Stefan Ruehrup, 62–75. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Tiny Worms Get Around Using Slug Guts And Poop. IFLScience. IFLScience. July 13.

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. 1993. State of the Airline Industry: Strategies for Addressing Financial and Competition Problems. T-RCED-93-21. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ismail, Abdel-R. 2009. Assessing the relationship between the Internet, radio frequency identifier (RFID), and information technology (IT) flexibility: A correlational study and findings. Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella University.

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

Casey, Nicholas. 2017. Peace Is New Test for Colombian Coca Farmers. New York Times, July 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Forrest 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Forrest 2013; Xu and Chen 2014).

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

Two authors: (Xu and Chen 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ates et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
ISSN (print)	0250-6335
ISSN (online)	0973-7758
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