How to format your references using the New Astronomy Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Astronomy Reviews. 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

Bennetzen, J., 2002. The rice genome. Opening the door to comparative plant biology. Science 296, 60–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson, K.H., Orvig, C., 2003. Boon and bane of metal ions in medicine. Science 300, 936–939.

A journal article with 3 authors

Imaizumi, K., Shih, J.Y., Farris, H.E., 2013. Global hyper-synchronous spontaneous activity in the developing optic tectum. Sci. Rep. 3, 1552.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hirayama, J., Sahar, S., Grimaldi, B., Tamaru, T., Takamatsu, K., Nakahata, Y., Sassone-Corsi, P., 2007. CLOCK-mediated acetylation of BMAL1 controls circadian function. Nature 450, 1086–1090.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGrath, A.E., 2011. Luther’s Theology of the Cross. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Gibbons, J. (Ed.), 2012. Generic and Indexed Programming: International Spring School, SSGIP 2010, Oxford, UK, March 22-26, 2010, Revised Lectures, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Dralus, G., 2010. The Investigating of Influence of Quality Criteria Coefficients on Global Complex Models, in: Rutkowski, L., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L.A., Zurada, J.M. (Eds.), Artifical Intelligence and Soft Computing: 10th International Conference, ICAISC 2010, Zakopane, Poland, June 13-17, 2010, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 26–33.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Earth’s Primordial Atmosphere Lost Due To Relentless Small Impacts [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/earth-s-primordial-atmosphere-lost-due-relentless-small-impacts/ (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, 1977. Problems in the Federal Funding of School Bus Driver Training Programs (No. CED-77-60). 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

Seidel, J.G., 2015. Adolescent female stress management curriculum (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

Shear, M.D., Nixon, R., 2017. More Immigrants Face Deportation Under New Rules. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bennetzen, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bennetzen, 2002; Thompson and Orvig, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Thompson and Orvig, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Hirayama et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Astronomy Reviews
Abbreviation	New Astron. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1387-6473
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics