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

Sudan, M., 2003. Mathematics. Quick and dirty refereeing? Science 301, 1191–1192.

A journal article with 2 authors

Behnia, R., Munro, S., 2005. Organelle identity and the signposts for membrane traffic. Nature 438, 597–604.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, S., Zhang, Y.E., Long, M., 2010. New genes in Drosophila quickly become essential. Science 330, 1682–1685.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kaaret, P., Corbel, S., Prestwich, A.H., Zezas, A., 2003. Radio emission from an ultraluminous x-ray source. Science 299, 365–367.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Haas, T.C., 2011. Improving Natural Resource Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Srivastava, P.K., Mukherjee, S., Gupta, M., Islam, T. (Eds.), 2014. Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Research, Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Hulley, H., 2010. The Economic Plausibility of Strict Local Martingales in Financial Modelling, in: Chiarella, C., Novikov, A. (Eds.), Contemporary Quantitative Finance: Essays in Honour of Eckhard Platen. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 53–75.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Dawn Spacecraft Denied Exciting Mission To Explore A New Body In The Asteroid Belt [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/dawn-spacecraft-denied-exciting-mission-to-explore-a-new-body-in-the-asteroid-belt/ (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, 2009. Recovery Act: States’ Use of Highway and Transit Funds and Efforts to Meet the Act’s Requirements (No. GAO-10-312T). 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

Grether, S., 2012. All You Need is Love? An Examination of Interracial Divorce (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Hodgman, J., 2016. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sudan, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Behnia and Munro, 2005; Sudan, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Behnia and Munro, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kaaret et al., 2003)

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