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]

Ladegaard Skov, A., “Materials Science: Like Cartilage, but Simpler,” Nature, Vol. 517, No. 7532, 2015, pp. 25–26.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Roman, J., and Palumbi, S. R., “Whales before Whaling in the North Atlantic,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 301, No. 5632, 2003, pp. 508–510.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Grinberg, I., Cooper, V. R., and Rappe, A. M., “Relationship between Local Structure and Phase Transitions of a Disordered Solid Solution,” Nature, Vol. 419, No. 6910, 2002, pp. 909–911.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Postma, H. W., Teepen, T., Yao, Z., Grifoni, M., and Dekker, C., “Carbon Nanotube Single-Electron Transistors at Room Temperature,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 293, No. 5527, 2001, pp. 76–79.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Muccini, M., and Toffanin, S., “Organic Light-Emitting Transistors,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Backhaus, J. G., Ed., “Physiocracy, Antiphysiocracy and Pfeiffer,” Springer, New York, NY, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Salviano, C. F., Alves, A. M., Stefanuto, G. N., Maintinguer, S. T., Mattos, C. V., and Zeitoum, C., “CERTICS - An ISO/IEC 15504 Conformance Model for Software Technological Development and Innovation,” Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination: 14th International Conference, SPICE 2014, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 4-6, 2014, Proceedings, edited by A. Mitasiunas, T. Rout, R. V. O’Connor, and A. Dorling, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014, pp. 48–59.

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]

Andrew, E., “Watch A Bizarrely Long Parasite Emerge From This Praying Mantis,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Dec 22 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/praying-mantis-infected-incredibly-long-parasite/

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, “Proposed Relocation of the Offices of the Social Security Administrator and Staff,” B-164031(4).113, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, May 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Borgman, G. A., “Loneliness and the Hermitic Psyche,” Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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]

Morris, M., “Why Argue With a Dream?,” New York Times, Mar 15 2015, p. ST6.

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