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

Foley, J.A., 2005. AtmospheRIC science. Tipping points in the tundra. Science 310, 627–628.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chaine, A.S., Lyon, B.E., 2008. Adaptive plasticity in female mate choice dampens sexual selection on male ornaments in the lark bunting. Science 319, 459–462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martinson, B.C., Anderson, M.S., de Vries, R., 2005. Scientists behaving badly. Nature 435, 737–738.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Y., Jorda, M., Jones, P.L., Maleszka, R., Ling, X., Robertson, H.M., Mizzen, C.A., Peinado, M.A., Robinson, G.E., 2006. Functional CpG methylation system in a social insect. Science 314, 645–647.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Troffaes, M.C.M., Cooman, G. de, 2014. Lower Previsions: Troffaes/Lower Previsions, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Tarantino, U., 2011. La gestione delle fratture da fragilità ossea: Raccomandazioni per chirurghi ortopedici. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Gao, X., Ren, X., Zhang, C., Zhu, C., 2016. Online Identification and Robust Adaptive Control for Discrete Hysteresis Preisach Model, in: Jia, Y., Du, J., Li, H., Zhang, W. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference: Volume 1, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 41–49.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. Mercury’s Dramatic Lava Flows Came From Extremely Rare Meteorites [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/mercurys-dramatic-lava-flows-came-from-extremely-rare-meteorites/ (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. Women in STEM Research: Better Data and Information Sharing Could Improve Oversight of Federal Grant-making and Title IX Compliance (No. GAO-16-14). 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, Y.-J., 2010. Copying and summarizing: Possible tools to develop English reading and writing for university students of different proficiency levels in Korea (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Wilson, M., 2017. Sentencing Will Provide Coda for Television Producer’s Real Crime Drama. New York Times A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Foley, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Chaine and Lyon, 2008; Foley, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Chaine and Lyon, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2006)

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