How to format your references using the Life Sciences in Space Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Life Sciences in Space Research. 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

Schapira, M., 2015. STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY. Chromatin complex, crystal clear. Science 350, 278–279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thursby, J., Thursby, M., 2006. Research and development. Where is the new science in corporate R&D? Science 314, 1547–1548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, J.Y., Liu, G., Sun, J., 2013. Crystallization-aided extraordinary plastic deformation in nanolayered crystalline Cu/amorphous Cu-Zr micropillars. Sci. Rep. 3, 2324.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Baddam, R., Kumar, N., Shaik, S., Lankapalli, A.K., Ahmed, N., 2014. Genome dynamics and evolution of Salmonella Typhi strains from the typhoid-endemic zones. Sci. Rep. 4, 7457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 1998. Guidelines for Design Solutions for Process Equipment Failures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Xie, X., 2016. Suizhou Meteorite: Mineralogy and Shock Metamorphism, Springer Geochemistry/Mineralogy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Matta, A., Semeraro, Q., Tolio, T., 2005. Configuration of AMSs, in: Matta, Andrea, Semeraro, Quirico (Eds.), Design of Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Models for Capacity Planning in Advanced Manufacturing Systems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 125–189.

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 Life Sciences in Space Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. 65-Year-Old Woman Gives Birth To Quadruplets [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ivf-quadruplets-delivered-65-year-old-woman/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 2015. Aviation Security: TSA Has Taken Steps to Improve Oversight of Key Programs, but Additional Actions Are Needed (No. GAO-15-678T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Horn, S.W., 2008. Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Accusative-Quotative Constructions in Japanese (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Hodara, S., 2016. Art With an Inflated Sense of Itself. New York Times WE9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Schapira, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Schapira, 2015; Thursby and Thursby, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Thursby and Thursby, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Baddam et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Life Sciences in Space Research
Abbreviation	Life Sci. Space Res. (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	2214-5524
Scope