How to format your references using the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 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

[1]

Sack F D 2004 Plant sciences. Yoda would be proud: valves for land plants Science 304 1461–2

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Moreno N P and Erdmann D B 2010 SPORE: Science Prize for Online Resources in Education. Addressing science teacher needs Science 327 1589–90

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Furuya T, Kamlet A S and Ritter T 2011 Catalysis for fluorination and trifluoromethylation Nature 473 470–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Kristensen L S, Treppendahl M B, Asmar F, Girkov M S, Nielsen H M, Kjeldsen T E, Ralfkiaer E, Hansen L L and Grønbæk K 2013 Investigation of MGMT and DAPK1 methylation patterns in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma using allelic MSP-pyrosequencing Sci. Rep. 3 2789

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bertau M, Müller A, Fröhlich P and Katzberg M 2013 Industrielle Anorganische Chemie (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Traum D, Swartout W, Khooshabeh P, Kopp S, Scherer S and Leuski A 2016 Intelligent Virtual Agents: 16th International Conference, IVA 2016, Los Angeles, CA, USA, September 20–23, 2016, Proceedings vol 10011 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cerone P, Dragomir S S and Kikianty E 2014 Multiplicative Ostrowski and Trapezoid Inequalities Handbook of Functional Equations: Functional Inequalities Springer Optimization and Its Applications ed T M Rassias (New York, NY: Springer) pp 57–73

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 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Insects Are the Great Survivors in Evolution: New Study IFLScience

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 2006 No Child Left Behind Act: States Face Challenges Measuring Academic Growth That Education’s Initiatives May Help Address (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

[1]

Garapati S H 2013 Analytical and Numerical Modeling of Assembly Procedures of Steel Fulcra of Bascule Bridges Doctoral dissertation (Tampa, FL: University of South Florida)

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

[1]

St. John Kelly E 1998 Real Life Story: Tale of a Shipwreck and the Actor Who Lived to Tell About It New York Times 147

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Abbreviation	J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
ISSN (online)	1475-7516
Scope	Astronomy and Astrophysics