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

Garber, K., 2007. Science careers. Translational institute unites unlikely partners at Penn. Science 317, 968–969.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peña, J.L., Konishi, M., 2001. Auditory spatial receptive fields created by multiplication. Science 292, 249–252.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holland, J.N., Okuyama, T., DeAngelis, D.L., 2006. Comment on “Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance.” Science 313, 1887; author reply 1887.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

de Fockert, J.W., Rees, G., Frith, C.D., Lavie, N., 2001. The role of working memory in visual selective attention. Science 291, 1803–1806.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reay, D., 2012. Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the OMAP-L138 eXperimenter. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bai, Z., 2010. Spectral Analysis of Large Dimensional Random Matrices, Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Bruneau, V., Sambou, D., 2016. Spectral Clusters for Magnetic Exterior Problems, in: Mantoiu, M., Raikov, G., Tiedra de Aldecoa, R. (Eds.), Spectral Theory and Mathematical Physics, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 57–70.

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., 2015. Athletics Doping Report Should Spark Radical Rethink On Drugs In Sport [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/athletics-doping-report-should-spark-radical-rethink-drugs-sport/ (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, 1981. President’s Third Special Message for FY 1981 (No. OGC-81-3). 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

Tornes, I.E., 2006. Topics in the Physics of Underdamped Josephson Systems (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

St. John Kelly, E., 1995. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times 139.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garber, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Garber, 2007; Peña and Konishi, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Peña and Konishi, 2001)
Three or more authors: (de Fockert et al., 2001)

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