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

Wehrli, B., 2013. Biogeochemistry: Conduits of the carbon cycle. Nature 503, 346–347.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao, Y., Bando, Y., 2002. Carbon nanothermometer containing gallium. Nature 415, 599.

A journal article with 3 authors

Neves, S.R., Ram, P.T., Iyengar, R., 2002. G protein pathways. Science 296, 1636–1639.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cacioppo, S., Frum, C., Asp, E., Weiss, R.M., Lewis, J.W., Cacioppo, J.T., 2013. A quantitative meta-analysis of functional imaging studies of social rejection. Sci. Rep. 3, 2027.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Massotte, P., Corsi, P., 2017. Smart Decisions in Complex Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Alloyeau, D., Mottet, C., Ricolleau, C. (Eds.), 2012. Nanoalloys: Synthesis, Structure and Properties, Engineering Materials. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Feldman, R.M., Valdez-Flores, C., 2010. Poisson Processes, in: Valdez-Flores, C. (Ed.), Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 115–139.

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., 2017. Industry-Funded Drug Trials Produce More Positive Findings [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, 1978. Contemplated Legislation To Provide Telecommunications for the Deaf (No. LCD-78-118). 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

Dickens, J.R., 2011. The experience of recovery from alcohol/drugs (AOD) (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Novick, S.M., 2016. Cocktails to Take Off the Chill. New York Times LI10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wehrli, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Gao and Bando, 2002; Wehrli, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Gao and Bando, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Cacioppo et al., 2013)

About the journal

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