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

Hashmi, A. Stephen K. 2012. Chemistry. Sub-nanosized gold catalysts. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338: 1434.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayer, Ronald, and James Colgrove. 2002. Public health vs. civil liberties. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297: 1811.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gong, Ying, Chunhui Mo, and Scott E. Fraser. 2004. Planar cell polarity signalling controls cell division orientation during zebrafish gastrulation. Nature 430: 689–693.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Knowles, Tuomas P., Anthony W. Fitzpatrick, Sarah Meehan, Helen R. Mott, Michele Vendruscolo, Christopher M. Dobson, and Mark E. Welland. 2007. Role of intermolecular forces in defining material properties of protein nanofibrils. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318: 1900–1903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boyd, Robert K., Cecilia Basic, and Robert A. Bethem. 2008. Trace Quantitative Analysis by Mass Spectrometry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Torres, Diego F., and Nanda Rea, ed. 2011. High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and their Systems: Proceedings of the First Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Iacucci, Ilaria, Luca Saba, and Michele Anzidei. 2013. Plaque Imaging. In Cardiovascular CT and MR Imaging: From Technique to Clinical Interpretation, ed. Carlo Catalano, Michele Anzidei, and Alessandro Napoli, 55–70. Milano: 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. 2014. 13.7 Billion Years Of Galaxy Formation In 46 Seconds. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 16.

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. 2002. Human Capital Legislative Proposals to NASA’s Fiscal Year 2003 Authorization Bill. GAO-03-264R. 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

Milillo, Michael Steven. 2009. Analysis of emotional intelligence among management leaders and non-management leaders in software development. 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

Schwartz, John. 2016. Max Ritvo, 25, Poet Who Chronicled His Cancer Fight. New York Times, August 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hashmi 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bayer and Colgrove 2002; Hashmi 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bayer and Colgrove 2002)
Three or more authors: (Knowles 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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