How to format your references using the New Astronomy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Astronomy. 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	Download the output style file
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

Watson, A., 2000. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY: Getting More Out of Space. Science 290, 1287b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krupalnik, V., Hanna, J.H., 2014. Stem cells: The quest for the perfect reprogrammed cell. Nature 511, 160–162.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, W., Dunkle, J.A., Cate, J.H.D., 2009. Structures of the ribosome in intermediate states of ratcheting. Science 325, 1014–1017.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhong, J., Liu, W., Kong, L., Morais, P.C., 2014. A new approach for highly accurate, remote temperature probing using magnetic nanoparticles. Sci. Rep. 4, 6338.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ji, Z.-G., 2017. Hydrodynamics and Water Quality. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Schneider Beck Fl., A.C., 2010. Dynamic Reconfigurable Architectures and Transparent Optimization Techniques: Automatic Acceleration of Software Execution. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Cuenca, P.J., McManus, J.G., 2009. Nonlethal Weapons: The Broader Context, in: Ho, J.D., Kroll, M.W. (Eds.), TASER® Conducted Electrical Weapons: Physiology, Pathology, and Law. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 41–50.

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 New Astronomy.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. How Slime Molds Make Decisions [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, 1994. Use of Corps Electronic Signature System (No. AIMD-94-179R). 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

Al-Kharafi, H.T., 2017. TF-CBT with the Pediatric Medical Population: A Modification (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Milhollin, G., Motz, K., 2003. The World; The Means to Make the Poisons Came From the West. New York Times 45.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watson, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Krupalnik and Hanna, 2014; Watson, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Krupalnik and Hanna, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhong et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Astronomy
ISSN (print)	1384-1076
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics Instrumentation