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]

Garnero E J 2004 Geophysics. A new paradigm for Earth’s core-mantle boundary Science 304 834–6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Srokosz M A and Bryden H L 2015 OCEAN CIRCULATION. Observing the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation yields a decade of inevitable surprises Science 348 1255575

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lutz W, Cuaresma J C and Sanderson W 2008 Economics. The demography of educational attainment and economic growth Science 319 1047–8

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Alvarez-Rodriguez U, Sanz M, Lamata L and Solano E 2014 Biomimetic cloning of quantum observables Sci. Rep. 4 4910

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Daïan J-F 2014 Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 1 (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Wißmann P 2007 Electrical Resistivity of Thin Metal Films vol 223, ed H-U Finzel (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Theoharis T 2009 3D Object Retrieval: Inter-Class vs. Intra-Class Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Computer Graphics Studies in Computational Intelligence ed D Plemenos and G Miaoulis (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 55–66

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 2016 Do Women Really Go For “Bad Boys’? Here’s The Science That Settles The Question 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 2015 Environmental Satellites: Improvements Needed in NOAA’s Mitigation Strategies as It Prepares for Potential Satellite Coverage Gaps (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]

Beeler M C 2010 Disordered Ultracold Two-Dimensional Bose Gases Doctoral dissertation (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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]

Kenigsberg B 2017 Is Flushing the Next Great Crime Setting? New York Times AR11

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