How to format your references using the Molecular Astrophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Astrophysics. 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

Gewin, V., 2002. Academy proposes tighter crop monitoring. Nature 415, 948.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sarewitz, D., Nelson, R., 2008. Three rules for technological fixes. Nature 456, 871–872.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kumarevel, T., Mizuno, H., Kumar, P.K.R., 2005. Structural basis of HutP-mediated anti-termination and roles of the Mg2+ ion and L-histidine ligand. Nature 434, 183–191.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, K.-J., Lee, J.-C., Ahn, S.-M., Lee, K.-S., Lee, C.-W., Cho, Y.J., Seo, S., Shin, K.-H., Choe, S.-B., Lee, H.-W., 2009. Interdimensional universality of dynamic interfaces. Nature 458, 740–742.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Seagal, Z.M., Surnina, O.M., 2016. Ultrasonic Topographical and Pathotopographical Anatomy. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Vuyst, P.D., Gevenois, P.A. (Eds.), 2006. Imaging of Occupational and Environmental Disorders of the Chest, Medical Radiology, Diagnostic Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Fairman, D., Chigas, D., McClintock, E., Drager, N., 2012. Meeting Implementation Challenges, in: Chigas, D., McClintock, E., Drager, N. (Eds.), Negotiating Public Health in a Globalized World: Global Health Diplomacy in Action, SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 81–93.

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 Molecular Astrophysics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Why Do We Dream? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-do-we-dream/ (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, 1993. Student Testing: Current Extent and Expenditures, With Cost Estimates for a National Examination (No. PEMD-93-8). 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

Rodriguez, F., 2009. A historical analysis of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Saslow, L., 2007. Nassau Has $100 Million for Open Space. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin, 2002; Sarewitz and Nelson, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Sarewitz and Nelson, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Astrophysics
ISSN (print)	2405-6758
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