How to format your references using the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets citation style

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

Cann, R. L., “Genetics. Y Weigh in Again on Modern Humans,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 341, No. 6145, 2013, pp. 465–467.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tao, F. F., and Salmeron, M., “In Situ Studies of Chemistry and Structure of Materials in Reactive Environments,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 331, No. 6014, 2011, pp. 171–174.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tilman, D., Reich, P. B., and Knops, J. M. H., “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability in a Decade-Long Grassland Experiment,” Nature, Vol. 441, No. 7093, 2006, pp. 629–632.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Onodera, R., Motoyama, K., Okamatsu, A., Higashi, T., and Arima, H., “Potential Use of Folate-Appended Methyl-β-Cyclodextrin as an Anticancer Agent,” Scientific reports, Vol. 3, 2013, p. 1104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hendrick, J., “Law and Ethics in Children’s Nursing,” Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Goemans, M., and Correa, J., Eds., “Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization: 16th International Conference, IPCO 2013, Valparaíso, Chile, March 18-20, 2013. Proceedings,” Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Stark, F., “Corporate Criminal Liability in Scotland: The Problems with a Piecemeal Approach,” Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence, and Risk, edited by M. Pieth and R. Ivory, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011, pp. 113–146.

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 Spacecraft and Rockets.

Blog post

[1]

Hale, T., “There’s A New Way For Crooks To Get Your Card Details From An ATM,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Sep 15 2016. 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, “IT Dashboard: Agencies Are Managing Investment Risk, but Related Ratings Need to Be More Accurate and Available,” GAO-14-64, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, December 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Greene, L., “Perceptions Of Women Leaders In A Catholic Archdiocese: A Phenomenological Study,” Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2017.

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]

Hollander, S., “MORE 65-M.P.H. ZONES,” New York Times, Aug 26 2001, p. 14NJ6.

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 Spacecraft and Rockets
Abbreviation	J. Spacecr. Rockets
ISSN (print)	0022-4650
ISSN (online)	1533-6794
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Aerospace Engineering