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

Destexhe, Alain. 2010. Neuroscience. Dendrites do it in sequences. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329: 1611–1612.

A journal article with 2 authors

Langer, Robert, and David A. Tirrell. 2004. Designing materials for biology and medicine. Nature 428: 487–492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alford, Ross A., Kay S. Bradfield, and Stephen J. Richards. 2007. Ecology: global warming and amphibian losses. Nature 447: E3-4; discussion E5-6.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chang, Wu-Lung, Robert B. Smith, Charles Wicks, Jamie M. Farrell, and Christine M. Puskas. 2007. Accelerated uplift and magmatic intrusion of the Yellowstone caldera, 2004 to 2006. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318: 952–956.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armstrong, Richard A., and Anthony C. Hilton. 2010. Statistical Analysis in Microbiology: Statnotes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kleinaltenkamp, Michael, Wulff Plinke, and Ingmar Geiger, ed. 2015. Business Relationship Management and Marketing: Mastering Business Markets. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Murday, Victoria A. 2016. Screening for Genetic Susceptibility to Paediatric Tumours. In The Surgery of Childhood Tumors, ed. Robert Carachi and Jay L. Grosfeld, 35–50. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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. Our Web History Reveals What We Think And Do. Shouldn’t That Remain Private? IFLScience. IFLScience. November 10.

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. Telecommunications: GSA’s Difficulties Managing FTS 2000. IMTEC-91-45. 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

Boylan, Steven A. 2017. An exploratory case study: U. S. Army’s leadership development for organizational leaders. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Landler, Mark, and Yamiche Alcindor. 2017. Condolence Call to Widow Ignites Trump Imbroglio. New York Times, October 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Destexhe 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Langer and Tirrell 2004; Destexhe 2010).

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

Two authors: (Langer and Tirrell 2004)
Three or more authors: (Chang et al. 2007)

About the journal

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