How to format your references using the Planetary and Space Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Planetary and Space Science. 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

Randolph, G.J., 2011. Immunology. No need to coax monocytes. Science 332, 1268–1269.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Der Merwe, P.A., Davis, S.J., 2002. Immunology. The immunological synapse--a multitasking system. Science 295, 1479–1480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carazo-Salas, R.E., Antony, C., Nurse, P., 2005. The kinesin Klp2 mediates polarization of interphase microtubules in fission yeast. Science 309, 297–300.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Auffray, C., Fogg, D., Garfa, M., Elain, G., Join-Lambert, O., Kayal, S., Sarnacki, S., Cumano, A., Lauvau, G., Geissmann, F., 2007. Monitoring of blood vessels and tissues by a population of monocytes with patrolling behavior. Science 317, 666–670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vanbésien, O., 2012. Artificial Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Guntenspergen, G.R. (Ed.), 2014. Application of Threshold Concepts in Natural Resource Decision Making. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R., Nixon, R., 2014. A New View of Research: Research Within Practice Traditions, in: McTaggart, R., Nixon, R. (Eds.), The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research. Springer, Singapore, pp. 67–83.

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 Planetary and Space Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Could Be Suitable For Primitive Life [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, 2015. Older Adults: Federal Strategy Needed to Help Ensure Efficient and Effective Delivery of Home and Community-Based Services and Supports (No. GAO-15-190). 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

Spralja, K.P., 2014. The intersections of culture and business: An ethnographic study of multicultural second generation young entrepreneurs (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

Feeney, K., 2006. QUICK BITE/Cranford; Endless Options in a Wrap. New York Times 14NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Randolph, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Randolph, 2011; van Der Merwe and Davis, 2002).

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

Two authors: (van Der Merwe and Davis, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Auffray et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Planetary and Space Science
Abbreviation	Planet. Space Sci.
ISSN (print)	0032-0633
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics