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

Li, Y., 2014. The evolution of reputation-based partner-switching behaviors with a cost. Sci. Rep. 4, 5957.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, G., Goeddel, D.V., 2002. TNF-R1 signaling: a beautiful pathway. Science 296, 1634–1635.

A journal article with 3 authors

Winter, Y., López, J., Von Helversen, O., 2003. Ultraviolet vision in a bat. Nature 425, 612–614.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Menneken, M., Nemchin, A.A., Geisler, T., Pidgeon, R.T., Wilde, S.A., 2007. Hadean diamonds in zircon from Jack Hills, Western Australia. Nature 448, 917–920.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moreau, N., 2013. Tools for Signal Compression. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Wu, A.M. (Ed.), 2011. The Molecular Immunology of Complex Carbohydrates-3, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Müller, A.W., 2011. The Concept of Person in Bioethics, in: Napier, S. (Ed.), Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos: A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments, Philosophy and Medicine. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 85–100.

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. Jellyfish Rearranges Its Arms to Recover From Amputation [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2010. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Improvements Needed in Continuity Planning and Involvement of Key Users (No. GAO-10-799). 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

Pierre, R.R., 2019. A Phenomenological Study of the Boomerang-Employment Experience of Scientists and Engineers (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Eligon, J., Bosman, J., 2017. Kansas Governor’s Tenure May Serve as a Warning for Conservatives. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Li, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Goeddel, 2002; Li, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Goeddel, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Menneken et al., 2007)

About the journal

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