How to format your references using the Journal of Propulsion and Power citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Propulsion and Power. 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]

Coleman, P., “Physics. The Lowdown on Heavy Fermions,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 327, No. 5968, 2010, pp. 969–970.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ghosh, A., and Holt, W. E., “Plate Motions and Stresses from Global Dynamic Models,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 335, No. 6070, 2012, pp. 838–843.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chen, F., Lam, C.-H., and Tsui, O. K. C., “Materials Science. The Surface Mobility of Glasses,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 343, No. 6174, 2014, pp. 975–976.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Moustafa, A., Beszteri, B., Maier, U. G., Bowler, C., Valentin, K., and Bhattacharya, D., “Genomic Footprints of a Cryptic Plastid Endosymbiosis in Diatoms,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 324, No. 5935, 2009, pp. 1724–1726.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Taroni, F., Biedermann, A., Bozza, S., Garbolino, P., and Aitken, C., “Bayesian Networks for Probabilistic Inference and Decision Analysis in Forensic Science,” John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Thomas, E. A., Ed., “Broken Pumps and Promises: Incentivizing Impact in Environmental Health,” Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Baer, P. C., and Luttmann, W., “Adipose-Derived Stromal/Stem Cells and Their Differentiation Potential into the Endothelial Lineage,” Adult and Pluripotent Stem Cells: Potential for Regenerative Medicine of the Cardiovascular System, edited by J. Hescheler and E. Hofer, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014, pp. 53–70.

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 Propulsion and Power.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, D., “Does Paracetamol In Pregnancy Cause Child Behavioural Problems?,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Jan 01 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2018

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, “Telecommunications: Characteristics and Competitiveness of the Internet Backbone Market,” GAO-02-16, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, October 2001.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Messian, N. M., “The Spiral of Time: A Path to the Soul—Jewish Mystical and Depth Psychological Perspectives,” Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2012.

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]

Gustines, G. G., “She’s Quite a Character,” New York Times, Dec 07 2016, p. D11.

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 Propulsion and Power
Abbreviation	J. Propuls. Power
ISSN (print)	0748-4658
ISSN (online)	1533-3876
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Fuel Technology Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering