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

Herschman, H.R., 2003. Molecular imaging: looking at problems, seeing solutions. Science 302, 605–608.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwefel, H.G.L., Türeci, H.E., 2015. Optics. A chaotic approach clears up imaging. Science 348, 189–190.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yaguchi, S., Yaguchi, J., Inaba, K., 2014. bicaudal-C is required for the formation of anterior neurogenic ectoderm in the sea urchin embryo. Sci. Rep. 4, 6852.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yukimoto, N., Tsutsui, M., He, Y., Shintaku, H., Tanaka, S., Kawano, S., Kawai, T., Taniguchi, M., 2013. Tracking single-particle dynamics via combined optical and electrical sensing. Sci. Rep. 3, 1855.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meyer, M.D., 2016. Transportation Planning Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Jajodia, S., Liu, P., Swarup, V., Wang, C. (Eds.), 2010. Cyber Situational Awareness: Issues and Research, Advances in Information Security. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Strauss, B., Brenk-Franz, K., 2016. The Relevance of Attachment Theory in Medical Care, in: Hunter, J., Maunder, R. (Eds.), Improving Patient Treatment with Attachment Theory: A Guide for Primary Care Practitioners and Specialists. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 39–52.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. There Are Dangerous Asteroids Hiding Among The Taurid Meteor Shower [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. D.C. Nonappropriated Revenue (No. AIMD-94-71R). 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

Lee, A.M., 2010. Examining the socially responsible leadership development outcomes of study abroad experiences for college seniors (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Vecsey, G., 2016. As a Butterfly or as a Bee, Ali Made an Impression. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Herschman, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Herschman, 2003; Schwefel and Türeci, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schwefel and Türeci, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Yukimoto et al., 2013)

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