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]

Ravussin E 2005 Physiology. A NEAT way to control weight? Science 307 530–1

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shizgal P and Arvanitogiannis A 2003 Neuroscience. Gambling on dopamine Science 299 1856–8

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gill D L, Spassova M A and Soboloff J 2006 Signal transduction. Calcium entry signals--trickles and torrents Science 313 183–4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Haffner C, Chelladurai D, Fedoryshyn Y, Josten A, Baeuerle B, Heni W, Watanabe T, Cui T, Cheng B, Saha S, Elder D L, Dalton L R, Boltasseva A, Shalaev V M, Kinsey N and Leuthold J 2018 Low-loss plasmon-assisted electro-optic modulator Nature 556 483–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Goldstein A P 2004 The Psychology of Group Aggression (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Myers A and Moshenska G 2011 Archaeologies of Internment (New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gorji A, Menhaj M B and Shiry S 2009 Multiple Target Tracking for Mobile Robots Using the JPDAF Algorithm Tools and Applications with Artificial Intelligence Studies in Computational Intelligence ed C Koutsojannis and S Sirmakessis (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 51–68

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]

Fang J 2015 Two Spectacular New Peacock Spiders Discovered in Queensland 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 1998 Student Financial Aid: Schools’ Experiences Using the National Student Loan Data System (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]

Madapatha S A 2015 Energy efficient hierarchical wireless routing protocol (EEHW routing protocol) Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Choi M H K 2015 LaCroix Sparkling Water New York Times MM28

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