How to format your references using the Planetary Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Planetary 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Spurgeon D (2003) Scientists call for Canada to boost polar-shelf funding. Nature 421:464

A journal article with 2 authors

Catalan G, Scott JF (2007) Magnetoelectrics: is CdCr2S4 a multiferroic relaxor? Nature 448:E4-5; discussion E5-6

A journal article with 3 authors

Liang Y, Wu D, Fu R (2013) Carbon microfibers with hierarchical porous structure from electrospun fiber-like natural biopolymer. Sci Rep 3:1119

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jamali M, Kwon JH, Seo S-M, et al (2013) Spin wave nonreciprocity for logic device applications. Sci Rep 3:3160

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stone R, Gutiérrez-Albilla JD (2013) A Companion to Luis Buñuel. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Faigel DO, Kochman ML (2006) Endoscopic Oncology: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Cancer Management. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Aucher G (2014) Principles of Knowledge, Belief and Conditional Belief. In: Rebuschi M, Batt M, Heinzmann G, et al (eds) Interdisciplinary Works in Logic, Epistemology, Psychology and Linguistics: Dialogue, Rationality, and Formalism. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 97–134

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 Science.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) How Mapping Teenagers’ Brains Has Helped Us Understand More About Schizophrenia. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2014) Federal Vehicle Collisions and Aftermarket Collision Avoidance Technologies. 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

Swift I (2011) The Perceived Effect of Hidden Costs on the Operational Management of Information Technology Outsourcing: A Qualitative Study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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 (2017) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM18

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Planetary Science
Abbreviation	Planet. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2191-2521
Scope